THE COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN STUDENTS' COMPETENCE
IN DAILY CONVERSATION BY USING DIRECT METHOD AND
COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING AT THE TENTH YEAR
STUDENTS OF SMA PRAKARYA SANTI ASROMO MAJALENGKA
ASEP BUDIMAN : “The Comparative Study Between Students' Competence in
Daily Conversation By Using Direct Method and
Communicative Language Teaching At The Tenth Year
Students of SMA Prakarya Santi Asromo Majalengka.”
As an international language, almost all countries have adapted English used as
a compulsory subject at schools. The national education has decided that English as a
foreign language taught in Indonesian schools. It is learned started from primary
school up to university. There are four skills in teaching and learning a language :
listening, speaking, reading, writing, but out of the four skills, speaking is considered
as the most essential skill to be mastered. Speaking is the process of building and
sharing meaning through the use of verbal and non-verbal symbols.
A lot of learning to improve the ability of Speaking, for example:
Conversation. Conversation is so intertwined with daily interactions that it is difficult
to define. Also, various fields of study have informed conversation: linguistics,
psychology, anthropology, and sociology. In this thesis, apply appropriate method
and techniques of teaching speaking or conversation. The method used is direct
method and communicative language teaching.
Direct Method is a combination of a natural approach to language learning.
Learning was developed to improve the ability to communicate verbally emphasizing
the provision of a pronunciation based on the rules of language learning.
Communicative Language Teaching is generally regarded as an approach to language
teaching. As such, communicative language teaching reflects a certain model or
research paradigm, or a theory. It is based on the theory that the primary function of
language use is communication. Its primary goal is for learners to develop
communicative competence.
The aims of the research are to find out the students’ competence in daily
conversation by using direct method, to find out the students’ competence in daily
conversation by using communicative language teaching, and to find out if there is
any positive and significant comparative study between the students’ competence in
daily converstion by using direct method and communicative language teaching.
The result of the comparison between students’ competence in daily
conversation by using direct method and communicative language teaching, the
significant value of tobs > ttable that is 5.50>2.02. from the statistical analysis above, so
Ho is rejected and H0 is accepted. it can be assumed that the result of the students’
competence in daily converssation by using direct method (X1 variable) is better tha
result of the student’ competence in daily conversation (X2 variable). In other words,
it can be considered that there is positive and significant comparative study between
the students’ competence in daily conversation b y using direct method (X1 variable)
and communicative (X2 variabl
