THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTEXTUAL TEACHING LEARNING (CTL) IN TEACHING SPEAKING AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF THE FIRST SEMESTER AT SMPN 1 TANJUNG BINTANG LAMPUNG SELATAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022

ABSTRACT THE IMPLEMENTATION OF CONTEXTUAL TEACHING LEARNING (CTL) IN TEACHING SPEAKING AT THE EIGHTH GRADE STUDENTS OF THE FIRST SEMESTER AT SMPN 1 TANJUNG BINTANG LAMPUNG SELATAN IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2021/2022 By FITRIA DEWI NURFATIN Guideline of educational unit level curriculum (K13) which is applied for all school levels in Indonesia leads the students to have real-life skills. There are four skills to be mastered as stated in K13 for English subject, namely, listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Speaking is one the important skills that the students have to master. By speaking, we can convey information and ideas, and maintain social relationship by communicating with other. This Classroom Action Research was conducted to find out whether the Implementation of Contextual Teaching Learning (CTL) improves the students speaking achievement and teaching learning process. The subject of the research was the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Tanjung Bintang Lampung Selatan. The result of the research proves the Contextual Teaching Learning (CTL) improve the students speaking ability. The indicators of the research are concerned of the learning Product and learning process. The indicator of the learning product was 80% off the students pass the passing grade which is 65 while the learning process was 80% for teaching performance. In second cycle, both of the indicator of the research that were for learning product and learning process were achieved. In students speaking score , 83.78% in students passed the passing grade. In teaching learning process , 86.48% students were actively involved and the teacher got score 83 for teaching and performance. Based on the data, the researcher concludes that the iii Implementation of CTL can improve the students speaking achievement and teaching learning process. Therefore, CTL is recommended to be used by teachers to improve their students speaking ability. Keyword: Contextual Teaching Learning, Classroom Action Research, Teaching Speakin