The Effects of Communicative Language Teaching of Student-Centered Approach on Students’ Speaking Ability at XI Grade of SMAN 1 Lubuk Sikaping

Irwansyah ., Endang Nurhayati

Abstract


This study aimed to find out the effects of communicative language teaching on students’ speaking skill using video. The participants of this study involved 60 students class XI of SMAN I Lubuk Sikaping in the academic year of 2017/2018. The participants of this study were divided into two classes (experimental and control class): class XI IPA 2 as the control group and class XI IPA 1 as the experimental group. This study used quantitative method and the data analyzed by using statistical analysis. The data obtained from the result of pre-test and post-test that was given to the participants during the process of the research. The result of this study was found that the mean of control pre-test class was 63.68 and post-test of control class was 80.0, while the mean of experimental pre-test was 64.28 and post-test of experimental class was 85.69. However, the mean value on the speaking skill test of the experimental group is higher than that of the control group. The increase of the scores in experimental class showed that the communicative language teaching was effective to use in teaching speaking in class XI of SMAN Lubuk Sikaping. Moreover, the result of the t-test was 0.011< 0.05, it indicated that there is a significant differences between students’ speaking ability who are taught using communicative language teaching and students’ speaking ability who are taught without using communicative language teaching.

                              


Keywords


communicative language teaching, student-centered approach, speaking skill, teaching Speaking, teaching, method.

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