THE USE OF COMMUNICATIVE APPROACH IN TEACHING SPEAKING COMPETENCE

This study aims to inquire into the use of commonicative approach in teaching speaking competence for young learners. The researcher found that the speaking skills or competence was the important skills that learners needed to grasp for improving their language competence. Young learners need to learn English as their foreign or second language as fun as possible. Speaking competence will teach English beyond grammar, words function, so that they feel free to express their opinion. By feeling comfortable to express themselves, they have good self-esteem to learn new knowledge and language. That is the reason why communicative approach, especially speaking competence can be taught well to the young learners. Keywords: communicative approach, speaking skill, teaching young learner