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Chapter I : Introduction
This chapter will discuss the background of this research, research question, aims, hypothesis,
Basic Consideration
Generally In English learning process, there are four skills that the students need to conquere
in order to measure their ability during the learning process. Those skills are divided into two
categories, namely productive skills consist of speaking and writing, and receptive skills
consist of listening and reading. Basically, every skill has specific point to assess students’
ability. For instance, in speaking class the lecturers will teach how to speak English in formal
and non-formal situation, and also make them fluent to speak in front of public. At the end,
teacher will measure to what extent their capabilities such as fluency, vocabulary and
grammar. Therefore it requires creativity in applying eligible method in class. In this case
lecturers should find a method which suitable for students in order they could achieve the
goals. Thus students will not lack of vocabulary and self esteem during speak in front of the
class or public.
Unfortunately there are some students who still have difficulties especially in
speaking class. It is caused by many factors such as anxiety and worries when doing mistakes
while speaking in front of people. Based on my experience, once lecturer asked some student
to speak, they would get nerveous and it caused their fluency and grammar disorganized.
Though they really want speaking up their mind. Another issue is they already construct the
words but once they speak, immediately it is gone in their mind. Other probabilities are
teacher cannot find a good method for students or the students do not match with method that
has been given, for instance there are some students who have lack of confident to talk in
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public. So sometimes when the teacher ask him/her to present in front of class they cannot
maximally do the task meanwhile the teacher force them to be talkative. Probably for the
others, it is easy to say you can do it but for the student it is really hard. That is why the
teacher cannot be selfish. As an educator, he/she has to know what is the lack of his/her
students’ speaking ability. lecturer must apply a method whether a method which already
provided or make their own method. In language learning itself there a lot of methods which
already qualify in learning process. Such as Silent way, learning with talking stick, word wall,
and community language learning. Those methods are usually implemented in language
learning process. For example ward wall, this method emphasizes in improving students
speaking ability and enhances vocabulary by using a paper which written a word in target
language and students will stick it up on the wall. While silent way is method founded by
Caleb Cattegno in 1970. This method claimed the students have to develop independence,
autonomy and responsibility they should cooperate with each other in the process of solving
the language tasks. Teacher also should give a boost to the search at the very beginning of the
lesson. Teacher must keep silence that is why it is called “Silent Way”.
The other method that might be applied in language learning is Community Language
refers to two things, namely the counselor (teacher) and client (students). It is kind of a
method which emphasizes in humanistic approach which means students will freely decided
what they want to learn. Because the students (client) are the main premise of the whole
process in the other words student are whole persons. Their opinions and needs are on the first
place. Meanwhile, teacher is only a counselor or helper, it means their role is just leading the
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students in process of learning and become a helper in case there is a student who needs to fix
their grammar, pronunciation etc. Base on the video simulation by Bonnie Mennel in 1990 she
demonstrated Community Language Learning to the foreign students. At the beginning of the
lesson she explained what will they do in the lesson, so student may adjust themselves cause
they know what will happen turns out they will feel more secure if they feel so, they will
comfortably learning the target language. Additionally this is one of the methods that could be
and this study focused on the following question can CLL improving students’ ability for
speaking?. Therefore, the title of this research is Improving Students Speaking Ability by
Research Question
Based on the background above thus, the following question will be the core of this study:
Aim of Research
The aim of this research is to examine and prove whether true or not Community Language
Hypothesis
The hypothesis of this study is Community Language Learning can increase student’s
speaking ability.
Significance of Research
There are some significances in this research, they are divided into two parts they are such as
a. Theoretically, the result of this research could be a reference for other researcher
especially related to the study of speaking ability in English and Community Language
English.
Scope of Study
In this study, researcher limited the focus to analyze improving students’ speaking ability by
using CLL method in first semester students of English Departement. This research will be
conducted in class B in Intensive Course class. Additionally the premise aspects will be
analyzed in this reasearch are the effectiveness of CLL in English learning process, and the
This chapter discusses the theories which support this research such as the definition
Community Language Learning, steps of Community Language Learning also teacher and
In teaching speaking, there are various methods that teacher may apply in class such as silent
created by Fatsah (2014) silent way is a name of language teaching method founded by Caleb
Cattegno, it is based on the premise that teacher should be silent as much as possible and
student should encourage to produce language as much as they can. But, this method
unfortunately makes teacher more passive, however student also need help during the
learning process whereas this method student actively learning the foreign language
language teaching, because this method utilize musical rhythm in terms of stimulate students
motivation and magnifies the oral proficiency of EFL (English as a Foreign Language)
learner. Georgi lazanov who developed this method believes that, it could help student to
memorize vocabularies by listening music and reading a text at the same time. But, this
method is quite debatable, according to Prof. Mohamed A. Zaid in his research Using
Suggestopedia in ELT in Saudi Arabia: Implications for Pedagogy in 2014 mentioned that
some people cannot learn in noisy circumstance, which music for them is considered noise.
Moreover, the use of hypnosis and infantilisation are the main issue in suggestopedia (Apriana
However, it does not mean there is no other method that teacher/lecture could be
apply in learning EFL. In this case, Community Langauge Language Learning (CLL) who
developed by Charles A. Curran and his associates in 1961 could be an alternative method for
them to teach EFL. Curran himself was a specialist in counseling and a professor of
this method is less in the technique, but tends to the human relationship (Curran. , 1961, p. 2).
It is denote that this method accentuate relationship between counselor to client and client to
Curran developed this method because he assumed that each person has a uniqueness.
relationship among the clients. Therefore, He brought some people into collective tasks
activity in order to solve the problem together and relate to each other. As notes that “the
students of the experimental group were highly motivated to learn in order to avoid isolation
from the group.” Therefore, Curran formulate this method in a group learning form, so the
client itself can learn from the other person in group and also they can evaluate their capabilty
In this method, students considered as a “whole person” which means teacher is not
only regarding their feeling and smartness but also the relationship among students and their
passion in learning second language. Sometime students did not feel comfortable in new
negative energy become positive. Besides, students afraid to be seen as a brainless stand
before the class, therefore teacher must positioning themselves as a counselor who will get
into them deeply. Once they feel comfortable with teacher and friends they will freely express
their thought and affective filter in their mind (which make them braveless to speak) day by
Particularly, students will through a several phases in process of learning second language. As
a guide to monitor student’s development, there are five phases that teacher may overview.
They are:
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These chart visualized the client’s development in process of laerning EFL. Begin
with client still need direction by knower, then they start speaking independently but still
need help from knower, till they free to speak independently totaly and start to communicate
fluently. In short, in order to make clients improve drastically, it needs cooperation between
In Community language learning the knower must know how to treat the client in order to
make them feel comfortabel during the learning process. Similar with another teaching
methods this method provides a steps that knower apply in learning process. These are the
Reflection
first of all, students sitting in a circle around a tape recorder to create a community
atmosphere. Before it begins, The students think in silence about what they would like to
talk about, while teacher remain outside the circle. To avoid a lack of ideas students can
Recorded conversation
secondly, once they have chosen a subject the students tell the teacher in their native
language what they would like to say and teacher discreetly come up behind them and
translate the language chunks into English. With higher levels if the students feel
comfortable enough they can say some of it directly in English and teacher give the full
English sentence. When they feel ready to speak the students take the microphone and
record their sentence. Here they're working on pace and fluency. They immediately stop
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recording and then wait until another student wants to respond. This continues until a
Discussion
Next, the students discuss how they think the conversation went. They can discuss how
they felt about talking to a microphone and whether they felt more comfortable speaking
Transcription
after they listen to the tape and transcribe their conversation. Teacher only intervene when
they ask for help. The first few times, try this with a class they might try and rely on you a
lot but aim to distance yourself from the whole process in terms of leading and push them
to do it themselves.
Language analysis
After all, sometimes students analyse the language the same lesson or sometimes in the
next lesson. This involves looking at the form of tenses and vocabulary used and why
certain ones were chosen, but it will depend on the language produced by the
learners and the teacher – and learn through interacting with members of the community
(Fatsah H. , 2014, p. 94). In other words, learner is the part of community like in a movie
production, learners are the lead actors and actreeses and knower is a director who direct
The teacher’s function derives from the functions of the counselor. A counselor’s clients are
people with problem, who in a typical counseling session will often use emotional language
teacher roles are operating a supportive role, providing target language translation, also
model for imitation and then interaction may be initiated by the students, and teacher
This method has been tried in university of Michigan. Demonstrating by La Forge during six
months, base on their demonstration, they have got the client are highly motivated during the
process. He emphasized that the value of silent period is for learning and understanding what
have been stated. La Forge (1979) also wrote an article about using CLL for oral English at
junior college in Japan for four years. Despite a six-year background of English study, the
students had no experience of hearing English spoken by a native speaker. Therefore, their
cognitive knowledge of English was quite high, but their effective use of English was almost
He found that "as the students continued to struggle to make them understood during
reflection periods over two months, the quality of the English showed a remarkable
improvement." In CLL context, Japanese students could change their attitude in foreign
language classrooms toward success in acquiring the target language. La Forge suggests that
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English teachers should not abandon all the traditional methods, but they should at least
introduce a CLL reflection period into their classrooms[ CITATION Nao00 \l 1057 ].
In 2008 Yuniarti a student from Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta
conducted a research about Community Language Learning through junior high school
students in MTsN Prambanan Klaten. Base on her study she was appying CLL to Arabian
language learning, in the result she found that this method improved students’ motivation in
learning kalam. It is proved that Community Language Learning in any other language in
terms of improving their ability and motivation in learning the second language.
In summary, there are various methods in teaching foreign language. Every method has
specific point and characteristic in terms of improving student speaking ability, but the
premise of all these method is similar it is make the student fluently master the target
language.
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This research uses quantitative method which concern on Pre –Experimental study. The study
Method of Research
This study was designed using quantitative method. According to Creswell (1994)
data that are analyzed using mathematically based methods (in particular statistics).
[ CITATION Sup05 \l 1057 ]. Specifically, the researcher will apply pre-experimental design
in terms of calculating and finding the result of the research. Pre-experimental designs are so
named because they follow basic experimental steps but fail to include a control group. In
other words, a single group is often studied but no comparison between equivalent non-
Population
The population of this study is focusing to the first semester students of English Departement
or class of 2016 in State University of Gorontalo. The total of population of this research was
125 students which consists of 5 classes. I selected first semester students because it is very
good to develop the knowledge and students’ self esteem in speaking since the first year. So,
When they are in the second, third, fourth semester, their speaking ability is more elevating,
Sample
The sample of this research was the first semester students of English Departement which is
class B (class of 2016) they are consist of 25 students. They were considered to be the main
participants. The sample was follows the purposive sampling, as mentioned by Sugiono,
(2011) the purposive sampling was taken by determination the sample based on certain
consideration. The researcher selected them by observing their score in pre-test for fresh
student of English Departement 2016 which was held by English Departement itself. Base on
observation this class have the lowest score than the other classes and there are 24 students
which has score under 400 from 25 students. Which means, 99% of them has lowest score
There are several phases are considered to use in this study, they are:
Observation
Firstly, the researcher was observed the class in order to see how the lecturers in English
Departement in teaching English process and what method that they use in class.
Pre-test
Secondly, the researcher gave a pre-test before applying community language learning
Treatment
language learning method to participants. spending 1 hour for each meeting, these are the
following procedures during six meetings which its theme already chosen by the students,
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since the students were first semester of English Department then they made an
agreement to choose the theme of each meeting based on their subject in first semester
which was IC. This also may ease the students because they could link the treatment of
- First of all knower gave instruction in terms of what they are going to learn during
Learning method. The following material that used in this meeting was about “house”.
- In second meeting the following material was about “Adjective” same as the previous
meeting, knower were applying the same method by following material about
adjective. During the learning process they were talk about kinds of adjective and the
definition, and variants of verb, they also made simple sentences related to the topic,
meeting students learned about the definotion, and kinds of noun.in the end, they
made sentences related to the topic and knower did a language analysis step.
- In fifth meeting students get the treatment by using the following material which
talked about “colour”. In this section they leaned about many kind of colour in
talked about “public places”. In this section students collected the vocabulary related
- to the topic. Thus, they were making a simple sentences about public places.
Post-test
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Fourthly, the researcher gave a post-test in order to measure their capability in speaking skill.
The researcher analyzed the data by quantitative method. Using statistical data for measuring
how effective community language learning can improve students’ speaking ability. in order
to prove the result the researcher used SPSS software in terms of finding the result. Whereas
to assessing their speaking ability in pre-test and post-test, researcher use these category:
Pronunciation
(1) Erorrs in pronounciation are frequently but can be understood by a native speaker
Grammar
(1) Errors in grammar are frequent, but speaker can be understood by a native speaker
Vocabulary
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(1) Speaking vocabulary inaduquate to express anything but the nost elementary needs.
(2) Has speaking vocabulary sufficiet to express himself simply with some
circumlocutions.
(3) Able to speak the language with sufficient vocabulary to participate effectively in
most formal and informal conversations on practical, social, and professional topics.
references.
Fluency
(1) (no specific fluency description. Refer to other four language areas for implied leveel
of fluency.)
(2) Can handle wit confidance but not with fcility most social situations and casual
information.
(3) Can discuss particular interests of compotence with reasonable ease. Rarely has to
needs. Can participate in any conversation within range of this expriencewith a high
degree of fluency.
(5) Has complete fluency in the language such that his speech is fully accepted by
Comprehension
(1) Withing the scope of his very limited language experience, can understand simple
(4) Can understand any conversation within the range of his experience
(5) Equivalent to that of an educated native speaker. [ CITATION HDo07 \l 1057 ]
Intonation
(3) There are some intonation that inappropriate but mostly could be understood.
This chapter discusses the data analysis and the discussion of the result of the research. This
research actually was designed by using quantitative method. The researcher would like to
find out the effectiveness of Community Language Learning in improving students’ speaking
skill. This chapter is divided into two main different sections namely the research findings
Research Findings
This part explicitly explains the finding of research which consists of the result of students’
score in pre-test and post-test. In finding the data of research, the researcher scored the
students’ speaking ability. The test held on first semester of English Department, class of
2016, particularly class B. The result of the data has been analyzed by using t-test to prove
whether the hypothesis of this research is accepted or rejected. Based on the statement above,
the students’ score both in pre test and post test are described as follow:
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Cases
a. Only a partial list of cases with the value 17 are shown in the table of
upper extremes.
b. Only a partial list of cases with the value 13 are shown in the table of
lower extremes.
c. Only a partial list of cases with the value 27.00 are shown in the table of
upper extremes.
d. Only a partial list of cases with the value 25.00 are shown in the table of
lower extremes.
Kolmogorov-Smirnova Shapiro-Wilk
Table 4.2 shown the normality analysis of the data. The description can be seen as follows:
The hypothesis stated the Ho means the data of pre-test was normality distrubuted and Hi
means the data of pre-test was not normality distributed. Ho is rejected if the level of
significant was < α (0.05). Based on the result of calculating this study found that the level of
significant was 0.078 > α = 0.05 which means that the pre-test was normally distributed.
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The picture above shows how the pre-test result shows a significant contribution towards the
testified object that the arrow shows an improvement. This means that the hypothesis is
accepted.
Meanwhile, the picture above shows how the pre-test result shows insignificant contribution
towards the testified object. This means that the hypothesis cannot be accepted or the
hypothesis is rejected.
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Before applying the language learning community to the students, the researcher gave the
pre-test. The data in pre-test was the students’ score that has been calculated by the researcher
to find out their basic comprehension of the students’ speaking skill before giving the
treatment. After calculating the students’ result or score of pre-test, it was found out the data
of the students’ score in doing the pre-test. The data are presented as follow:
The data of pre-test is presented in the table of interval relative frequency as follows:
1 5-10 4 16%
2 11-15 18 72%
3 16-20 3 12%
4 21-25 0 0%
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5 26-30 0 0%
Total 25 100%
The table above clearly describes the students’ ability in doing the pre-test of speaking skill.
The table distributed the students’ pre-test score of interval classes into five. Those are
interval class 5-10, interval class 11-15, interval class 16-20, interval class 21-25, and interval
class 26-30. The table above further explains that in interval 2-10 there is four students with
16% from the total students’ percentage. In interval 11-15, there are 18 students with the 72%
of percentage. The result is also almost same with the interval class of 16-20 with 3 students
or with the 12% of percentage. On the other hand, the interval class of 21-25 and 26-30, there
Furthermore, the data of the students’ ability in doing the pre-test above will be presented into
PreTest
8
5
Pre Test
4
0
5-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 26-30
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Based on the graphic 4.1, that showed the five classes or range of score in pre-test
before applying the proof in the character method. When viewed from the score that had been
distributed into five classes, it could be seen that most of the students’ speaking skill is still
low. The graphic above clearly explains that there is no students who could obtain more than
The generally, the lowest of interval class 5-10 was 4 students or 16% and the highest
of interval class 26-30 was 0 student or 0%. In addition, the second and the third of the
number of interval class were 18 and 3 students. In the same way like the fifth interval class,
the fourth of the number of interval class was 0 students or 0%. Thus, after analyzing the data
of pre-test can be concluded that the mean of students’ speaking score was 46.44%. It shows
After conducted pre-test, the researcher gave the community language learning method to
students, throughout eight meetings with different topic in each section. Before beginning the
process of learning, the knower asked the students sit in circle, because this is the the main
feature of this method. After that, counselor gave a brief expalnation about what students are
going to learn, this part is important because in order to make students feel save the students
could brainstorm the topic which will be given. The topic In first meeting was about “house”
firstly, knower divided students into pairs so they are going talk with their pair related with
the topic. Next , students were making a list of vocabulary about house. These are the
following vocabulary:
After that, the knower wrote the vocabulary which found by students on the whiteboard, then,
knower lead the students to pronouce the words in order to practice the pronunciation of each
word. After that, to analyzed students’ gramatical competence, knower asked students to
make short or long sentences base on the words on whiteboard. However some students still
Always /alweys/
Western /wenstern/
Difficult /difikult/
Because /bikos/
Table /tabel/
Afterward, knower were analyze the grammar and fix the grammar if needed. To complete
the steps, knower asked students about their feeling during the learning process. In the
achievement of the students, in this step the students could share their feeling and also give
suggestion for the next meeting. The students had not made any clear improvement in their
speaking, it had been proved by the students’ speaking that still disorganized.
In the second meeting, knower still apply the same method with different topic. Began
with brainstorm the material and students sat in a circle, next students worked in pairs and
make a conversation related to the topic. In this meeting the topic was about “adjective”.
similar to previous meeting, after listing the words students will pronounce it one by one
followed by the students. After that, language analysis step which students were make short
or long sentences and knower helped them to fix the grammatical problem at the same time.
Lastly, knower asked them about their feeling during the learning process. In this meeting
Bored /bort/
Lazy /lezi/
Promise /premis/
The improvement of the students in this second meeting is they start to be brave to speak,
even they were still afraid to speak. The students pronounciation still frequently error, the
grammar also still frequently error, the vocabulary of the students still limited, the students’
fluency in speaking were still in the low level, the comprehension of the students also still
low, and the intonation of the students had lots of inapropriate intonation.
The third meeting topic was about verb, so in this meeting they were learn about the
definition and kinds of verb. Similar to the previous meeting the class started with brainstorm
After that, knower pronounce the words one by one followed by students. Next, students
made a simple sentences in order to analyzed the gramatical problem. In this meeting half
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from the total of students were more confindence to speak which is good progression.
However it still found misspronunce and so on, for example student A produce sentence:
/every single film has been of him played become the big/
In this case student talked about his favorit actor, but he misspronun some words and
not arrange his sentence gramatically. Therefore knower helped the student in arranging the
sentence more sounds perfect. In the end they were sharing about their feeling during the
learning process.
In the third meeting the students improvements are the students pronounciation still
frequently error but there is a bit improvement, the grammar also still frequently error but it
can be understood, the vocabulary of the students still limited, the students’ fluency and their
comprehension in speaking were still low, and the intonation of the students had lots of
inapropriate intonation.
For the fourth meeting, students were learning about noun. Still similar to previous
meeting, it all started with brainstorming, make a conversation and make lists of words
related to the topic. These are the list vocabulary which was collected:
similar to previous meeting, after listing the words students will pronunce the it one by one.
After that, language analysis step which students were make short or long sentences an
finally knower helped them to fix the grammatical problem. also asked them about their
the students accent is clear even still have some mistakes, the grammar of the students can be
handled now even they still have less of confidence in controlling their grammar, in
vocabulary the students start to know how to express some words even with some mistakes,
their becomes has some improvement where they start to confidence even not with the
situation in the class, the comprehension of the students they start to comprehed the technical
For the fifth meeting, students were learning about colour. Still similar to previous
meeting, it all started with brainstorming, make a conversation and make lists of words
related to the topic. These are the list vocabulary which was collected:
similar to previous meeting, after listing the words students will pronunce the it one by one.
After that, language analysis step which students were make short or long sentences an
finally knower helped them to fix the grammatical problem also asked them about their
The students imporvement in the fifth meeting are their pronounciation now start to
be understood a little bit but there are some words that still unrecognized, in grammar
students control in grammar generally becomes better even there were still a lot of
grammatical error in speaking, in vocabulary students can start to use proper words now, their
fluency also start to be better even still low but now they can discuss about the topic, their
comprehension generally is start to be quite complete, and the intonation still found
The improvement made by the students in this meeting are their pronunciation are
quite rare, their grammar also now becomes more accurate on a normal level, their
vocabulary can be understood and can be used in any conversation where they experience has
improved it, their fluency also at the normal level their comprehension generally is quite
complete, and the intonation still found but mostly can be understood now
For the sixth meeting which is the last meeting, students were learning about ‘public
places’. Still similar to previous meeting, it all started with brainstorming, make a
conversation and make lists of words related to the topic. These are the list vocabulary which
was collected:
similar to previous meeting, after listing the words students will pronunce the it one by one.
After that, language analysis step which students were make short or long sentences. There
were differences from last meeting, students were more brave to show their ideas and gave
According to the sentences above, the students are more arrange their sentences in
proper way. Finally knower helped them to fix the grammatical problem also asked them
The students imporvement in the sixth meeting are their pronounciation now start to
be understood even there are some words that still unrecognized, in grammar students control
in grammar generally becomes better, in vocabulary students can use sufficient words now,
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their fluency also start to be better where they can discuss about the topic, their
comprehension generally is quite complete, and the intonation still found but mostly can be
understood now.
The researcher found that all students could comprehend their ability in improving
their speaking skill through the language learning community. Thus, the researcher found that
there were significance progresses of the treatment that given the students in the class. It was
clearly found that the students’ level of achievement in speaking skill was different from the
first meeting to the sixth meeting. It can be concluded that the result of students’ recorder, the
the language learning community, the students’ comprehension in speaking skill could be
improved.
After giving the pre-test and six meetings as treatment to the students, the last activity was
given to them is the post-test. The result of the post-test shows a contradictive data with the
pre-test. Based on the result of the post-test data or the score of the students in post-test, it can
be seen clearly that there is an improvement to their score in terms of their speaking ability.
Furthermore, the data of post-test is presented in the table of interval relative frequency as
follows:
1 5-10 0 0%
2 11-15 0 0%
3 16-20 1 4%
4 21-25 18 72%
5 26-30 6 24%
Total 25 100%
The table above explains the students’ ability in doing the post-test of simple present tense.
The table distributed into eight interval classes. The table above shows that there is no student
in 5-10 and 11-15 interval class with 0% percentage, one student in 16-20 interval class with
4% percentage, six students in 21-25 interval class with 72% percentage, and eleven students
The table above has shown the improvement of the students’ score in term of their
speaking ability. Different from the result of the pre-test, where the lowest score was 9, after
the language community had been applied to the students, the lowest score is 19. This
indicates an improvement on how the students solved the problem of speaking ability.
Furthermore, the data of the students’ ability in doing the post-test above is presented into the
Post Test
8
5
Post Test
4
0
5-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 26-30
Gra
Based on the graphic 4.2 above, that showed the five classes or range of score in post-test
after applying the language community. When viewed from the score that had been
distributed into five classes, it could be seen that most of each range score only obtained less
The generally, it can be seen that the lowest of interval class 5-10 and 11-15 was 0
student or 0% and the highest interval class 26-30 was 6 students or 24%. In the same way,
the fourth interval class was 18 students or 72%. Thus, the mean of students’ ability in
speaking according to the post-test was 17.37 or 57.89%. It shows that the students’
Based on the calculation between students’ pre-test and post-test were different results. In
pre-test, before the treatment was given or applied, the students’ speaking ability was still low
before. It was different with post-test, the result increased higher than pre-test. It can be seen
in pre-test, the lowest score was 9 and the highest score was 19. While in post-test the lowest
score was 19 and the highest score were 30. It means that the students’ speaking ability was
improved after the treatment of language community was given. The comparison of
descriptive statistics between students’ pre-test and post-test can be seen in the following
graphic:
12
10
8
6 Pre Test
Column1
4
2
0
5-10 11-15 16-20 21-25 26-30
Graphic 4.3:
Based on the graphic 4.3, it can be seen that comparison between descriptive statistic
of pre-test and post-test based on the students’ score was different of result. The average score
of the students was the mean of students’ speaking score in pre test was 46.44% and the mean
of students’ speaking score in post test was 57.89%. based on the following formula by
1. Highest 81-100%
2. High 61-80%
3. Medium 41-60%
4. Low 21-40%
5. Lowest 0-20%
It can be seen that the students’ pretest was in medium level, and the students’ post test was
also in medium level. However, there was a bit improvement where the score from 46.44% to
57.89% even it still at the same level. It may happen because this method only applied in six
It can be seen clearly that in the fourth and fifth interval class was between pre test
and post-test happened increasing. Here are examples of students progression during the
treatment phase:
Yotube…..” youtube……”
“….i feel fly to seize my dream…” “ …. I would like to seize my
dream….. “
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According to examples above, in pre test mostly students prefer to used Indonesian
grammar, because students were still confused in how to produce a good sentence. Although,
they knew the word in English, but the students should make the sentence based on English
grammar. Then after the treatment, in student’s result of posttest, the students tried to arrange
the sentence in a perfect sentence. Based on the table, most of student increased their ability
In the previous chapter, the researcher explained the formula that was used in analyzing the
data of this research. Thus, in this data analysis the researcher used t-test formula to analyze
the students’ pre-test and post-test result. However, to get the accurate of the data, the
researcher had to get the value of Gain, Md, Xd, and X2d.
To calculate the result of pre-test and post-test can be seen in the following formula:
Md
t=
√ ∑ X 2d
N ( N−1)
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6.433
=
√ 385
25(25−1)
6.433
=
√ 385
30(24)
6.433
=
√ 385
870
6.433
=
√ 0.443
6.433
=
0.666
t= 9.65
ttable= 2.04
Based on the calculation of the result data analysis previously, it was found that the
total value of Gain was 193. This result has been taken from the reduction of each score in
pretest and posttest. In addition, it was continued to get the value of Md. In getting the value
of Md, based on the formula the researcher calculated the score by dividing the total value of
Gain (d) with the total of subject (n), and it found that the value of Md was 6.433. Moreover,
the researcher found that the value of X2d after getting the value of Gain, Md, and Xd. In this
step, the researcher calculated the square of each value in Xd to find out the value in X2d. Thus,
When the calculation of the value of each item was done, the researcher got the value of
tobservation(t) by calculating the result of the value of Gain, Md, and X2d that have been found
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before to the t-test formula. Then, it was found that the result of tobservation between pre-test and
Hypothesis Verification
The hypothesis of this research is “language learning community” can enhance the students’
speaking abillity.
Based on the previous statement, to decide the hypothesis was accepted or not, the
researcher used level of significant with α = 0,05 and dk =(n1 + n2 - 2) with criteria as below
next page.
To find out the analysis data of tobservation will be accepted or not, the writer must
calculate the values by using t-test formula. Based on the calculation, it was found that the
value of tobservation was 6.18 in the level significance α = 0. 05 whereas the value of ttablewas
2.04. Therefore, the result of tobservation would be accepted because the researcher compared the
accepted if tobservation≥ ttableor 9.65≥ 2.04. It means that, the application of “community
Discussion
The data of this research was taken from students’ pre-test and post-test by using a pre-
experimental design, one group pre test - post test. This research conducted at the first
semester of English Department, class of 2016, with the total of students were 25 students.
The result of t-test analysis has shown that the word language learning community could
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enrich the students’ speaking ability. In addition, the students’ improvement in term of their
speaking skill could be seen in every meeting during six meetings. In this case, they did not
have significant improvement started from the third meeting until the last meeting when the
language learning community was applied to their speaking practice learning. It may happen
because the researcher only made six meetings to give a treatment to the students while the
short time of giving treatment may not give a big impact to the significant improvement of
the students’ speaking. Moreover, the researcher chose first semester students of English
Department who were very beginer as a learner of a English Foreign Language, in which it
could make the students’ speaking ability could not imporve significantly because their basic
knowledge that was still limited, instead the knower used some indicators which were
students in the classroom. Therefore, the teachers should be more creative in teaching their
students in order that they are going to be happy to receive the material in the class. Thus, the
researcher tried to apply word language learning community which has been proven to enrich
their speaking skill. The implementation of this method could support the teaching and
learning process in the classroom because the students got the opportunity to express their
applied in speaking. According Tranel (1968) that the students of the experimental group
were highly motivated to learn in order to avoid isolation from the group.” That is why
Curran formulated this method in a group learning from, so the client here can learn from the
other person in group and also they can evaluate their capability in terms of speaking skill.
Thus, it could find out that the language learning method is a proper way or technique that
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could be used to enrich the students’ speaking ability. In this case, their scores in term of
speaking skill or speaking ability had increased in the post-test. The implementation of the
language learning community for the students in teaching and learning English speaking skill
is considered good to be applied because it is easy to be applied with the situation of the
classroom and the students. Thus, by applying this method, the researcher was easy to find
out whether the students understood or not about the teacher or researcher explained to them.
(1979) stated that the advantages of the language learning community as visualize and
simplify ideas, it was clear that by applying this technique the students could express their
ideas by looking at topic given by teacher during the language learning community activities.
In this case, the language learning community provided the opportunity to the students in
learning or enriching their vocabularies as well as their speaking skill or speaking ability that
they could construct from the vocabularies that they already knew, thus it will be easier for
them to learn new vocabularies and try to communicate with the people inside their language
It is supported by La Forge (1979) who stated that language learning community method can
encourage the students in organizing ideas, but it may miss out the time of students. In other
method, the students needed the opportunity in a long time to comprehend the topic was
given by teacher. It believed that the time in every meeting which consists of an hour 30
minutes was not enough for them because they needed too long time if they got a new topic.
By giving the treatment during six meetings, in the third meeting of treatment the
students were very enthusiastic in learning the new topic in speaking. It can be seen from
most students understood the topic because it was familiar for them so that they understood to
formulate the words and sentences and perform it into a presentation in front of the class. As
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Lesser (2007) as cited in Rouhi and Aghari (2011) stated that the topic familiarity and
background knowledge not only to led better comprehension, but it also promoted learners’
ability to make from meaning connections in the text. It is clear that if the students got the
topic familiarity, it will be easier to understand because they have knowledge about that topic.
In this case, from the third meeting until the sixth meeting the students’ progress in speaking
skill had a good improvement because of the topic what they got.
speaking skill was good because of giving the treatment every meeting. In this case, the
students should have skills and abilities in the used of speaking. Speaking is very important in
language learning and it must be learned by the students. We can communicate with people in
certain language easier by mastering good English speaking skill or ability . Thus, in this
research focused in enriching the students’ speaking ability through the language learning
community.
expected to get a good result in teaching and learning process. It was proved that in applying
this method could give the effect of students’ performance in learning speaking as well as
improving their speaking skill. As a result of the language learning community technique
proved that can improve students’ speaking skill. Therefore, this method can be used by the
teachers in teaching speaking skill to the students. However, even if this technique can
improve students’ speaking skill but the teacher should pay attention toward the time-
Research Limitation
Although this research was carefully prepared, the researcher still aware of the limitation of
this research. Actually, the students’ speaking skill in this research showed the difference
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result between pre-test and post-test. The result of this study showed the average of students
concluded that this method can improve students’ comprehension in speaking skill. The total
value also can fulfill standard the criteria of teaching maximum which 70%. The cause was
came from this research was conducted at the students of the first semester of Enlish
Deparment which spent in several meetings. It believes that conducting the research in a short
time was not enough for the researcher to observe all of the students’ comprehension in
speaking skill. It would be better if it was done in a longer time, but in this case the
researcher gave the assignment and the test every meeting in the treatment to improve the
students’ comprehension in learning speaking skill this was make this research did not have a
The second, the test items of speaking comprehension only thirty questions but all the items
are only covered some specific group of words such as animals, things, and people.
Thus, this research is still acceptable and necessary to be conducted. It is because the
result of this research was found that there is improvement of students’ speaking skill. In
other word, the result of students comprehension is categorizes as a good level after applying
In this chapter, the writer wants to conclude the activities that have done in the research. The
writer explains the result of the research in a conclusion. There are several suggestions that
Conclusion
Based on the data analysis in the previous chapter, the researcher presented the conclusion of
the result of this research. The hypothesis of this research is “Community Language
Learning” can improve or enrich the students’ speaking ability in learning English. It was
proved that the hypothesis of this research is accepted. It was found that the criteria H1 will
be accepted if t-list < t-count. The value of t-list (n-1=29 =2.04. thus, it is obtained that t-
improve or enrich the students’ speaking ability in learning English?”. It is clear that the
students’ comprehension in term of their speaking skill based on the data analysis between
pre-test and post-test , the researcher found that t-count was 9.65, it means that students’
speaking mastery can be improved by applying the language learning community. Moreover,
the students’ comprehension can be categorizes as a good level. Thus, it can be concluded
that the language learning community can give a good effect to improve the students’
speaking skill.
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Suggestion
Based on the result of the research, the researcher has some suggestions for the English
teacher and the students that can be given in relation with the researcher’s conclusion, they
are as follow:
1. The teachers should behave in a friendly manner, being helpful and cooperative, making
students feel comfortable when speaking in the class, ensuring students’ active
participation in the classroom environment. This can also help the students to have better
nonthreatening environment. This is done by adding small group activities, role plays,
and pair works into their lessons to practice more about the development of their
speaking.
3. If students conveyed lack of practice with speaking skills in their previous language
learning experiences, respectively primary school education, the teachers should adopt a
communicative approach to provide students with more chances to practice their speaking
skills.
4. It is important to base an activity on easy language so that the students can speak fluently.
Recommendations from this research are that every language teacher can offer different
ways of teaching speaking skills based upon his/her personal observation during the teaching
process. Thus, during this process, the role of language teachers is considered highly crucial
and their particular beliefs, perceptions and attitudes towards language learning and the
teaching process have the potential of both causing and reducing language among the
students.
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