Prastyo Dwi Nugroho, 221402504 (2009) The Use of Communicative Activities in Teaching Speaking to Improve Student’s Fluency (In the Case of the First Grade Students of SMPN 7 Batang in Academic Year of 2009/2010). Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This study is aimed to finding out the effect of using communicative activities in teaching speaking to improve students’ fluency (in the case of the first grade students of SMPN 7 Batang). There were two problems in this study: 1) How are communicative activities applied in teaching speaking to the first grade students of Junior High School? 2) Does the use of communicative activities in teaching speaking to the first grade students of Junior High School improve their speaking fluency? The hypothesis for the first problem depended completely on the implementation of the communicative activities, in teaching speaking to the first grade students of Junior High School. Based on the implementation, there were 4 stages in teaching speaking using communicative activities for the first grade students of Junior High School. The stages were structural activities quasi-communicative activities, functional communication activities and social interaction activities. Each stage supported the stage following it. These stages involved teaching speaking, using communicative activities, to improve students’ speaking fluency. The hypothesis for the second problem is that the use of communicative activities improves speaking fluency of the first grade students of the Junior High School. The students’ fluency improvement in speaking was measured by pre-tests and post-test using interviews given before and after the treatment. The scoring of the tests used the Schulz Communicative Competence Scale. The data from the tests were mainly used to test the hypothesis. The hypothesis was tested with t-test for independent samples. To reduce any factors that might decrease the level of the research validity, there were two groups involved in this research. Both groups, the experimental group and the control, were the same, except for the treatment given to each group. The treatment was applied to the experimental group only. The research subjects were 80 first grade students of a Junior High School SMPN 7 Batang. Through the hypothesis testing (t = 6.11 with p < .05) the null hypothesis in this study was rejected. This rejection was based on the fact that the t-score of computation (t = 6.11) was greater than the t-score in the table (between 1.671 and 1.658), so the use of communicative activities significantly improve the speaking fluency ability of the first grade students of the Junior High School.

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