Title: IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING OF THE SECOND LEVEL STUDENTS AT ‘MEC’ MEGALIA ENGLISH COURSE.
Abstract: This study is a collaborative action research investigation to improve the speaking abilityof the students at Megalia English course especially class X-B. Opportunities to teach English areprovided in many different ways and it is based on each teacher who teaches. One of the teachingmethods is Communicative Language Teaching that would provide more opportunities for children todevelop their speaking skill in English because the classroom procedure in CLT gives students moreactivity in class. The subject of this research was taken from class X-B of second level students atMegalia English Course. This class consisted of 15 students. The researcher concluded this researchduring Febuary-March 2015. The improvement of students’ speaking ability could happen by usingthe Communicative Language Teaching type of activities as follow: (a) Presentation of a brief dialogor several mini dialogs, roles setting topic and the informality or formality of the language with thefunction and the situation demand. (b) Questions and answers based on the dialog. (c) Questions andanswers related to students personal experience but centered on the dialog theme. (d) Individual work.(e) Pair works. (f) Evaluation of learning. (g) Sampling of the written homework assignment. (h)Games related to the topic. (i) Oral pratice. Based on the conclusion, it is recommended that: (1) TheEnglish teachers have to be sure that the method of teaching is effective to improve the students’ skillor not. Communicative Language teaching method is recommended to apply to increase the studentsspeaking ability. (2) A well-prepared planning is also important to the teacher before teaching so theclass will be running well without wasting time to the unimportant things. (3) The English teachershave to be able to make a creative class so the students will not be bored in the class.Keywords: Communicative Language Teaching, Speaking Ability, Second Level Students ofMegalia English Course.