The Effect Of Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Approach Towards Students' Speaking Ability Of The Second Years Students' at SMPIT Insan Utama Pekanbaru

This study was carried out to know whether there is a significant effect of communicative language teaching (CLT) approach toward students speaking ability. The researcher expected the students able to speak and considered the components of speaking ability well. They are fluency, grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation. The design of the research is a experimental research. There was one group experimental class. This research have two variable, The first communicative language teaching (CLT) approach and the second speaking ability. From the data analysis it could be seen that there was the progress in pre-test and post-test. The students got the mean score was 72.40 in pre-test and in the post-test got the means score was 85.73. The students’ speaking score of each indicator in one group experimental got improvement. It was found that the higher score in speaking recount text of experimental class is in indicator fluency. The improvement was 0,80 %. The lower score in speaking recount text is in indicator vocabulary. The improvement was 0,26%. The result of the study showed that students' speaking recount text got improvement from pretest to post test in one group experimental class. Students' post test score of one group experimental class is greater than the students score of pre test. Based on the result of students' speaking test it can be conclude that there was a significant effect of communicative language teaching (CLT) approach toward students speaking ability at second years SMPIT Insan Utama Pekanbaru. From the result of the data the researcher also concluded that the use of communicative language teaching give the possitive effect in speaking ability, mean while this research focused on recont text