Electronic Theses and Dissertation

The objective of this research entitled "improving students' speaking skill through community language learning method' was to find out whether or not teaching speaking using community language learning method can improve students' speaking ability. the study is focussed on teaching speaking monoloque in form recount text by using community language learning method. to collect the data, the researcher will use experimental research. the population of this research was 24 of the second grade students of smpn 1 darussalam. the data of this research were collected by giving the tests (pretest-posttest) to the students' sample. the collected data were analyzed by using t test formula. the results of the data analysis showed that the mean score of pretest was 49.91, the mean score of posttest was 75.29, and the t observe was 20.11. the t critical value with degree of freedom 23 and level of significance at 0.05 (5%) was 1.714. based on the data analysis above, the alternative hypothesis was accepted because the t observed was higher than t table (20.11>1.714). it also meant that teaching speaking using community language learning method was effective to improve students' speaking ability.