IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL USING COMMUNICATIVE LANGUATE TEACHING
Abstract
This article points out the results of the study attempting to solve the
speaking problem faced by students in one of the Secondary School in
East Lampung. For the purpose of the topic, 35 students were selected
as the subject. Research method was Classroom Action Research with
Kemmis and Taggart model. It was conducted for about four cycles.
According to the results of speaking test, findings showed that using
Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) had positive meaningful
effect on improving students’ speaking skill. To sum up, CLT is an
effective method to teach speaking to the subject.
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