AZIZAH, 2017, The Effectiveness of Using Community Language Learning
Activities (CLLA) in Teaching Speaking for The Eight Grade Students of
Mts Noorhidayah Darussalam Palingkau Lama in Academic Year
2017/2018. Thesis, English Education Department, Tarbiyah and Teachers
Training Faculty. Advisor: (I) Drs. H. Ahdi Makmur, M. Ag. Ph.D, (II)
Nur Laila Kadariyah, S.Ag, M.Pd.
Keywords: Effectiveness, Community Language Learning Activities
Speaking should be mastered by language learners. It is significant for all
language learners to reach their speaking skill to be fluent. To reach the goal,
teachers have to use the appropriate method of teaching speaking effectively in
the classroom. Speaking has basic function of language as communication
instrument. Students who study at the school which use certain language should
be good speakers, different from students who study at the other school. However
some get difficulties in using English to speak each other. It is caused by
condition of school environment and media that is used in teaching learning
procces.
Based on the explanation above, the purposes of the thesis are : 1) to know
the eight grade students’ ability in speaking ; 2) to know the improvement of
students’ speaking ability by using CLLA at the eight grade of MTs Noorhidayah
Darussalam Palingkau Lama Kuala Kapuas. 3) to find out the effectiveness of
using CLLA to improve students’ speaking ability at the eight grade students of
MTs Noorhidayah Darussalam Palingkau Lama in academic year 2017/2018.
This research is designed to do experiment research. There are two groups
of students to want to be know the effectiveness of using CLLA in teaching
speaking. The writer give the students of each group pre-test and post-test and
treatment by using CLLA in group A as an experiment class, while group B as a
control class. The population of eighth grade students at MTs Noorhidayah
Darussalam Palingkau Lama in academic year 2017/2018 totalling 95 persons,
the sample were taken from class VIII A and B, as seen in the following table.
The data were collected by using the purposive sampling technique, and taken as
much as 20% of the total students of class VIII. Then, they are analyzed by using
statistic calculation in SPSS 16.
The result of this study shows that the students’ ability in speaking was
high. Their mean scores was 10.6. In addition, there is an improvement of
students’ speaking ability of the eight grade at MTs Noorhidayah Darussalam
Palingkau Lama in the academic year 2017/2018, it can be seen from students’
scores of pre test and post test in experiment class. Students’ pre test score is 8.6
and post test is 10.6. So the improvement was 2 points only, which categorized
low. Based on the result by using SPSS 16 statistic program, it can be concluded
that CLLA is significantly effective to improve the students’ speaking ability, it is
based on mean score of 10.3