JARIYAH: THE COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING (CLT)
AND STUDENTS IMPROVEMENT IN SPEAKING SKILL
The linguists perceive language as a complex communication system. It is
also widely believed that language must be analyzed on several levels, e.g.,
phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics and lexis, pragmatics, discourse.
(Mitchel and Myles, 2001: 14). Language is one of the most important elements in
the communication. It is only used to communicate but also to interact with other,
to express an idea or feeling, to send a message, and so on.
In the process teaching and learning need also a language. A search in
contemporary dictionaries reveals that “Learning is acquiring or getting of
knowledge of a subject or a skill by study, experience, or instruction.” (Brown,
2000: 7).As like the students taught by the teacher with the method of teaching such
as the teacher use the communicative language teaching in the speaking skill on the
process teaching and learning of language.
The communicative language teaching is a by word for language teaching.
(Brown, 2000: 14). Language teaching is not easily categories into methods and
trends. According to Harmer (3rd Edition: 78), the general area of methodology to
the practice of English teaching are approaches, methods, techniques, procedures
and models.
In doing all that, the researcher takes qualitative research on the research.
The researcher takes Communicative Language Teaching Today by Jack C.
Richards 2006, The Practice of English Language Teaching by Jeremy Harmer 3th
Edition, and Techniques, Principles in Language Teaching by Diane Larsen
Freeman 2000, Introduction to Teaching English by Jill Hadfield and Charles
Hadfield 2008, those are as the source and type the data of this research. The
technique of data collection in this research is library research and the writer used
the technique of analysis data is content analysis by David E. Grey.
The result of this research shows that according to the data above, it was
proven that the communicative language teaching can apply to teach in teaching
language especially for the speaking skill. The researcher got the conclusion that
the communicative language teaching can apply to teach the students in speaking
skill. And the purposes of this research that the used of communicative language
teaching and students improvement in speaking skill. The researcher also has
suggestion to all the reader and the other researcher
