THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMUNICATION PRACTICE TECHNIQUE IN TEACHING SPEAKING TO THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS OF SMP MUHAMMADIYAH SALAMAN IN THE SCHOOL YEAR 2013/2014

Abstract

Speaking is one of the four language skill that has a very important role in the language teaching and learning. speaking is a products skill that can be directly and empirically observed, those observations are invariably colored by the accuracy and effectivenesss of a test-taker’s listening skill. In speaking we can measure the student’s English ability. It is also used as a mean of communication. communication practice is also a kind a metadiscursive practice, a set of expertly designed ways of talking about communication that are available to be used in everyday discourse. In fact, the researcher found that the English speaking skill of the second years students of SMP Muhammadiyah Salaman is not satisfactory yet. The techniques that are used by the teachers still make the students unable to communicate with others. To solve the problems, the researcher tries to apply the communication practice technique in teaching speaking. The researcher applied quantitative with an experimental method. The population of the research is the second grade students of SMP Muhammadiyah Salaman in the school year 2013/2014. The researcher takes 37 students as the participant of the study by applying purposive sampling technique. The researcher used pre-test and post-test in this research as a research instrument. In technique of analyzing data, mean and standard deviation are used in the descriptive analysis, while test of normality, homogeneity and t' test is used in the inferential analysis. To see whether the hypothesis is accepted or rejected, the t-test is consulted to the t-table at the 0.05 significance level. The research found that the t-test result is 10.312, while t-table with the degree of freedom of N -1 on 37-1=36 is 1.688. it means that the result of t-test is higher than the one on the figure of t-table. Thus the researcher hypotheses proved true and can be accepted. The research suggests English teachers to use communication practice technique as one the technique in teaching speaking.