THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE APPLICATION OF COMMUNICATIVE
LANGUAGE TEACHING METHOD AND THE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING
COMPETENCE AT THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA 1 CIREBON
AHMAD SETIO WIDODO :THE CORRELATION BETWEEN THE
APPLICATION OF COMMUNICATIVE
LANGUAGE TEACHING METHOD AND THE
STUDENTS’ SPEAKING COMPETENCE AT
THE SECOND GRADE STUDENTS OF SMA 1
CIREBON
English as a foreign language in Indonesia has been taught as a school subject
in education level, beginning from the elementary school until university. Students
need to master on English. It is not an easy thing to do because students still have
difficulties in learning English. In this thesis, the writer focuses on the students’
speaking competence that relates to the lack of students in doing English discussion.
Looking forward the problem, the writer focuses on the Communicative
Language Teaching method as a problem solving. Communicative Language
Teaching involves being able to use the language appropriately in different
circumstance. It can define as a communicative teaching methods which helping the
students’ out in speaking competence when they encounter real-life communication.
The aims of this research are to know the students’ responses of the application
of Communicative Language Teaching method, to know the students’ speaking
competence, and to know if there any significant correlation between the application
of Communicative Language Teaching method and the students’ speaking
competence. The techniques of collecting data are observation, interview, test and
questionnaire. The students’ responses of the application of Communicative
Language teaching method as X variable using questionnaire and the test of the
students’ speaking competence as Y variable is students’ performance in English
interaction by using Communicative Language Teaching method. The approach of the
research is quantitative approach, the data is analyzed statistically by using Product
Moment Correlation by Pearson and t observation ( ).
The calculation shows that the result of X Variable is 40,56 and Y Variable is
79. The result of coefficient correlation ( ) is 0.44 means that is a high enough
correlation. The value of is bigger than . The result of t observation ( ) is
2,69. The value of is bigger than ( > ), so the correlation between X
and Y variable has a significant correlation.
The conclusion is that the research hypothesis of this thesis is received and the
alternate hypothesis is refused. It means that there is a significant correlation between
the application of Communicative Language Teaching method and the students’
speaking competence. Accordingly, Communicative Language Teaching method ca
