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Developing Teaching Procedure based on Communicative Language Teaching Principles to Teach Speaking

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Teaching procedure can be developed to achieve a better result, which is to improve students’ speaking skill. This research aims to find out whether the developed teaching procedure based on Communicative Language Teaching principles can improve students’ speaking ability. This is a quasi-experimental research design that conducts a quantitative method with 30 students as the subjects. The students were tested through the speaking test before and after the treatment. The finding shows that there is a significant increase between the pre-test and post-test. The t-value, which is 11.221 is higher than the t-table, which is 2.045. Or, the sig (2-tailed) is 0.000, which is lower than 0.05. Therefore, it can be concluded that the developed teaching procedure based on CLT principles can improve students’ speaking ability.

Task-Based Language Teaching based on Audiolingual Method to Promote Students’ Speaking Achievement

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This present study was an attempt to examine whether a task-based language teaching based on audiolingual method improves students’ speaking achievement and to examine which aspect of speaking improves the students’ speaking achievement most. This research was conducted to 34 computer and network engineering students of the eleventh grade of SMK Ma’arif Sindang Ayu by using purposive sampling. The data were analysed quantitatively. The result presented the value of sig. (2-tailed) = 0.000 < α=0.05. as well as t-value= 14.606 > t-table=2.042. It means that H0 was rejected and Ha was accepted. It was implied that the implementation of task-based language teaching based on audiolingual method significantly improved students’ speaking achievement. Besides, the aspect of speaking which improved the most was fluency in which had the highest gain score among other aspects of speaking.