The Effects Of Practicing Communicative Approach In The Teaching Of Speaking Skill Among Esl Teacher Trainees

Abstract

English language communication is crucial to develop the community’s interest in learning English as a second language especially in achieving the target of Vision 2020 of being fully developed country based on our own moulding and in producing quality human capital as the main manpower. Thus, various methods and approaches have been implemented to teach the language effectively. One of the approaches is Communicative Approach which is based on the idea that learning language successfully comes through having to communicate real meaning. When learners are involved in real communication, their natural strategies for language acquisition will be used, and this will allow them to learn to use the language. The aim of communicative approach is communicative competence. Therefore, this study is carried out due to the problems faced by the teacher trainees who are still lacking of communicative competence although they have learnt English for at least 11 years in schools and scored good marks in their Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination. Thus, it intends to identify the effects of practicing the communicative approach in the teaching of speaking skill among ESL teacher trainees, the effect of motivation factor, the effect of English practices in the classroom and the effect of language learning strategies on speaking performance. The quasi-experimental design is to analyse the students’ speaking performance through the use of the speaking module, ‘Diagnose, Run and Assess’ (DRA) based on Communicative Approach (CA) principles.