AUDIO LINGUAL TEACHING AS AN ALTERNATIVE METHOD IN TEACHING SPEAKING

ABSTRACT
Anggraeni, Purwita.2007.Audio-lingual Teaching as an Alternative Method in
Teaching Speaking an Action Research Given to the of the first year
students of SMP Negeri 2 Pemalang In the academic year 2006/2007)
An Action Research. A Final Project. English Department, Language
and Art Faculty, Semarang State University. First Supervisor: Dwi
Anggara Asianti, S.S, M.Pd. Second Supervisor: Dra. Hj.Dwi
Rukmini M.Pd.

Keywords: Audio-lingual Teaching Method, Alternative Technique, Teaching
Speaking, First year students of Junior High School.
The topic of this study is “Audio-lingual Teaching as an Alternative Method in
Teaching Speaking an Action Research Given to the of the first year students of
SMP Negeri 2 Pemalang In the academic year 2006/2007) An Action Research.”.
This final project is an action research. In this study, I limit the discussion by
stating the following problem: “How effective is Audio-lingual Teaching Method
used as an alternative method in improving the students’ speaking achievement?”
The objective of the study is to explain the effectiveness of Audio-lingual
Teaching as an alternative method in improving the students’ speaking
achievement. It is expected that the result of the study will provide a deeper
understanding about using Audio-lingual Teaching as teaching method for English
teachers and also for the readers. There were four steps in conducting this action
research: planning, acting, observing, and reflecting.
In order to achieve the objective of this study, the writer designed a quasi
experiment using pre-test and post-test. The population of this study was the first
year student of Junior high School of SMP Negeri 2 Pemalang. The sample of this
study was class VII E. The number of the student was 40 students. There were
four meetings during the experiment. Before the experiment was conducted, the
students were given a pre-test. At the end of the experiment, the students were
given a post-test.
The result of this study revealed that the post-test scores were better than
the pre-test scores. It could be seen by comparing their means. The mean of the
pre-test scores was 11.18 while the mean of the post-test scores was 19.25. The
difference between the two means was 8.56.The result of applying one sample ttest
revealed that the obtained value (15.03) was higher than the t-table value
(2.02). It means that there is significant difference in grade of speaking test
achieved by the students after they have been taught using Audio-lingual
Teaching Method.
In line with the result, the writer suggests that the Audio-lingual teaching
Method is one of the effective method as to increase students’ enthusiasm in
learning English. This result hopefully would motivate teachers to use the Audiolingual
Teaching Method in their classroom, especially when teaching speaking to
first year students of junior high school.
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