The Effect of Using Communicative Language Teaching on Speaking Ability

Abstract

This research aims at investigating the impact of Communicative Language
Teaching method on the improvement of students’ speaking ability. This is
experimental research with non-randomized control group pretest posttest
design. Class VII/A is the experimental research group, while class VII/B is
the control group. Each of them consists of 22 students. Subjective test is used
to collect the data about the students’ speaking ability in which the content is
based on the curriculum used in the school. The data analysis used is t-test using
SPSS version 16. The result of data analysis shows that p value is 0.016. The score
is lower than 0.05. Seeing the result we can say that the null hypothesis (Ho)
saying that there is no effect of using Communicative Language Teaching on
speaking ability is rejected. It means that there is effect of using Communicative
Language Teaching on the students’ speaking ability.
Keywords: Communicative Language Teaching method, speaking ability.