THE EFFECT OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING METHOD AND THE AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD FOR STUDENTS’ ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILL

The abstract is to be in fully-justified italicized text, at the top of column as it is here, This study aims to determine whether there is difference in the English speaking skill among groups of students that learned with Communicative Language Teaching Method and the Audio-Lingual Method. Researchers used a quasi-experimental research designs with a population of 383 and the number of samples 70. The data collection technique using a pretest and posttest. Data analysis using descriptive and different test with parametric statistical methods, because the normal distribution of research data and homogeneous. The preliminary findings of research shows that the English speaking skill in the two groups of students are the same. It is known from the pretest data analysis both groups that the significance value of 0.080. While the results of data analysis obtained F count posttest probability of 13 467 to 0,000. This means that the average value of the English speaking skill in Communicative Language Teaching Method and the Audio-Lingual Method is significantly different or there are significant differences.