The application of communicative approach to improve students' speaking ability (A Classroom Action Research on 8th grade of SMP Darul Istiqamah). The purpose of this research was to explain the improvement of students' speaking accuracy and students' speaking fluency through the use of communicative approach. The result above indicates that there is a significant improvement in students' speaking ability in terms of speaking accuracy and speaking ability in the application of communicative approach in the eighth grade students of SMP Darul Istiqamah Maccopa Maros Regency.
Appendix H: Student observation data analysis technique Appendix I: Result of the researcher's observation sheet.
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Problem Statements
How to improve students' speaking accuracy through the application of the communicative approach. How to improve students' speaking fluency through the application of the communicative approach.
Objectives of the Research
Significance of the research a. Theoretically
It is also expected that the findings of this research can stimulate thinking about the English language in language teaching and learning in the direction of using a communicative approach in improving students' speaking ability in terms of speaking accuracy, dealing with vocabulary and pronunciation, and speaking fluency. they deal with fluency and confidence and make the language concern acquire a communicative language ability that is used not only as an academic language but also as a daily conversation.
Scope of the Research
Previous Related Research Findings
Hasriati (2004) explained in her thesis (Improving students' speaking ability through situational language learning in the second year of SMPN 2 KajuaraKab. Bone) that the method of situational language learning is a good way to improve students' speaking ability. This research has some concerns about improving students' speaking ability, especially in the elements of speaking and how to improve speaking ability. This research also differs from Jumahid's research because her research deals with how to deliver a speech and how to improve speaking ability in terms of speech accuracy.
Harmer, the communicative approach or communicative language teaching (CLT) is “the name that would be given to a set of beliefs that involved not only a reexamination of what aspects of language to teach, but also a shift in emphasis to how to teach. communicative language teaching usually engages students in reading or realistic communication, where the accuracy of the language they use is less important than the successful achievement of the communicative task at hand.
Communicative Approach
The communicative approach is a broad approach to teaching that results from a focus on communication as the organizing principle of teaching rather than a focused mastery of the grammatical system of the language. Communicative language teaching activities usually involve students in reading or realistic communication, where the accuracy of the language they use is less important than the successful achievement of the communicative task at hand. Basically, the above principles explain that students will be more interested in learning the language (English) if they are aware of the importance of the language itself and if the teacher gives them more opportunities to participate in the classroom and they will get an answer in the teaching-learning process.
The third role for the teacher is that of researcher and learner, with much to contribute in terms of appropriate knowledge and skills, actual and perceived experience of the nature of learning, and organizational capabilities.
Speaking
Chastain says that learning to speak is obviously more difficult than understanding the spoken language, because it involves a sequential arrangement of activities that requires both the teacher and the learners. It is the most essential way in which the speaker can express himself through the language. It is the most essential way in which the speaker can express himself through the language.
As we know that language as a tool of daily communication is one of the productive skills of English, which means oral communication in which the speaker expresses ideas, information or feeling to others.
RESEARCH METHOD RESEARCH METHOD
Research Subject
The researcher asked the students to sit in pairs and gave the material to be practiced. At the end of the lesson, the researcher asked the students about the difficulties they faced. The researcher showed the students the topic to be practiced in the conversation (Getting to know others).
The researcher asked the students to sit in pairs and distributed the material to the students. In the group, students practiced the material distributed by the researcher using interview technique. The researcher dug the students' prior knowledge in relation to the story above by asking them questions.
The researcher sat the students in a group consisting of three or four students. The researcher sat the students in a group and gave them material, which they practiced using the interview technique. By asking questions, the researcher dug into the students' prior knowledge about life experiences in the city.
The researcher had the students sit in pairs and then disseminated the practiced material using interview technique. The researcher sat the students in pairs and disseminated the material using interview technique.
Research Instruments
Technique of Data Collection
Surveillance; The observer observed the students' activeness and presence in the teaching and learning process by using observation sheet. Test; The Researcher gave speaking tests to the students to know their previous ability and their improvement after taking actions in cycles. The researcher tested the students one by one face to face by giving three different questions to each student. Very poor 0.0 – 3.5 They speak very hastily, and more sentences are not appropriate through vocabulary and little or no communication.
Very Poor 0.0 – 3.5 They speak hastily and several sentences are inappropriate in pronunciation and there is little or no communication. Very bad 0.0 – 3.5 They speak very hastily and several sentences are not appropriate in terms of politeness and little or To find the students' mean test score, the researcher used a formula.
In particular, this chapter presents the findings of the research cover describing the students' improvement in Accuracy and Fluency.
Finding
- Improvement of the Students’ Accuracy
- Improvement of the Students’ Fluency
- The Improvement of the Students’ Speaking Ability through Communicative Approach Communicative Approach
In the diagnostic test, students' scores differ from the scores of students in the first cycle. According to the above percentages, a significant progress of students using the communicative approach is noticeable. In order to clearly see the improvement in students' speaking accuracy, the following graphic is presented.
The data in the table above shows the students' fluency in Fluency as a result of calculating the diagnostic test, the first cycle and the second cycle based on the students' fluency using the Communicative Approach, where the score of the students on the diagnostic test, the first cycle and the second cycle were different. Based on the above percentages, there was a significant improvement among the students through the use of the Communicative Approach. Therefore, there was an improvement in the fluency of the students and the goal can be achieved.
After evaluation in the first cycle, the students' speaking ability (24,74) is categorized as good and the second cycle (53,71). The improvement of students' speaking ability from the diagnostic test to the first cycle achieves 24.74%, and the first cycle to the second cycle 36.52%. There was also significant improvement in the students' speaking ability from the diagnostic test to the first cycle and the first cycle to the second cycle.
The above table proves that the use of communication approach in the teaching and learning process could improve the speaking skills of the students after taking action in the first cycle and the second cycle where the students are. From the graph above, it can be seen that the improvement in students' speaking ability from the diagnostic test to the first cycle is 24.74%, from the first cycle to the second cycle is 36.52%, from the diagnostic test to the second cycle is 53.71%. .
SPEAKING
DISCUSSION
- Accuracy
- Fluency
- The Implementation of Communicative Approach
The application of Communicative Approachat eighth grade of SMP Darul Istiqamah Maccopa can improve students' speaking ability. The improvement of students' ability to write good s through communicative approach had an effective effect. Where the teacher was, the diagnostic test of Accuracy finds that the students just got a score of about 4.78.
After taking action in the first cycle through the communication approach, the students' accuracy percentage was 10 students (63.5%) who got good. The above result also proves that the use of communicative approach could improve students' accuracy, where the result of the second cycle was higher than the first cycle and the diagnostic test (cycle II> cycle I> diagnostic test). Where the teacher found that the students had just gotten a score of about 4.73 on the Fluency Diagnostic Test.
After taking an action in the first cycle through the communicative approach, the percentage of students' fluency 9 students (56.25%) is good. The result above also proves that the use of communicative approaches is able to improve students' fluency, where the result of the second cycle is higher than the first cycle and diagnostic test (cycle II>cycle I>Diagnostic test). In the first cycle, the students' answers are low, but in the second cycle, the students' answers are classified as good.
Based on the results of the research, the researcher found that the students. attendance at each meeting of the two cycles normally improves. From the first meeting of the second cycle, student activity has increased, which was 71.88% to 96.88% with the student average.
Conclusion
Suggestions
To generally improve students' speaking ability, there are many cases to improve such as: speech precision, speaking fluency, how to deliver speeches, etc. But it is better to use this method to know the students' speaking ability improvement for the other abilities. What do you usually do if you know the day is your friend's birthday.
THE RESULT OF STUDENTS' WRITING TEST IN DIAGNOSTIC TEST OF SMP DARUL ISTIKAMAH MACCOPA.
OBSERVATION RESULT
