The effectiveness of using Communicative Language Teaching Approach in teaching grammar on the second year students of SMA Muhammadiyah Wonosobo in the academic year 2013/2014.

Abstract

schools throughout the world, included our country. Students in Indonesia are hoped to have competence in English and they should master English. Because grammar is the basic of English, the students have to master grammar in order to master English. It is also important for teacher to use appropriate approach in teaching grammar. Communicative Language Teaching Approach is one of classroom approaches used to practice new language. CLT approach serves real and meaningful classroom practice to the students. The objective of this study is to describe whether or not using communicative language teaching approach effective in teaching grammar on the second year students of SMA Muhammadiyah Wonosobo in the academic year 2013/2014. The type of this research is experimental research. The number of the sample is 74. The control group is 37 students of class XI IPS 1, and the experimental group is class XI IPS 3 which consists of 37 students. The independent variable is the use of communicative language teaching approach, and the dependent variable is the students’ ability in understanding grammar. The sampling technique which is used is purposive sampling. The instrument that used to collect the data is a test. The form of the test is divided into two parts. Those are pre-test and post-test. The researcher uses SPSS 16.0 to analyze the data. The result of the research finds that the mean score of pre-test in control group is 58.37 and the mean score of post-test is 62.48. While the mean score of pre-test in experimental group is 57.94 and the mean score of post-test is 75.67. Then the value of t-test is 8.837, and the value of Sig. (2-tailed) is 0.00. It can be concluded that the Ha “The use of communicative language teaching approach is effective in teaching grammar on the second year students of SMA Muhammadiyah Wonosobo in the academic year 2013/2014” is accepted.