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The effectiveness of contextual teaching and learning in teaching speaking viewed from students‘ self-esteem (An Experimental Research in the Second Semester Students of English Department–Siliwangi University Tasikmalaya in the Academic Year of 2011/2012


Oleh :
Nita Sari Narulita Dewi - S891008062 - Sekolah Pascasarjana

The objectives of the research are to prove whether: (1) Contextual Teaching and Learning is more effective than Audio-Lingual Method in teaching speaking at the second semester students of English Department – Siliwangi University Tasikmalaya in the Academic Year of 2011/2012; (2) the students who have high self-esteem have better speaking ability than those who have low self-esteem at the second semester students of English Department – Siliwangi University Tasikmalaya in the Academic Year of 2011/2012; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching methods and self-esteem in teaching speaking at the second semester students of English Department – Siliwangi University Tasikmalaya in the Academic Year of 2011/2012. The research is an experimental research conducted at Siliwangi University Tasikmalaya in the Academic Year of 2011/2012. The population was the second semester students of English Department – Siliwangi University Tasikmalaya which consisted of 235 students coming from seven classes. The sample, II F as the experimental group and II B as the control group, was taken by using cluster random sampling. The number of students of each class is 30 students, so there are 60 students used as sample. To collect the data, the writer used questionnaire of self-esteem and speaking test. To know the readability of speaking test and to know validity and reliability of the questionnaire of self-esteem, a try-out was done beforehand. The writer used normality and homogeneity test in order to check normality and homogeneity of the sample distribution. The data were analyzed using ANOVA and Tukey test. The research findings show: (1) Contextual Teaching and Learning is more effective than Audio-Lingual Method in teaching speaking; (2) The students having high self-esteem have better speaking ability than those having low selfesteem; and (3) There is interaction between teaching methods and students‘ self-esteem. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that Contextual Teaching and Learning is an effective method to teach speaking because it offers challenging learning activities. To get maximum result and effect on students‘ speaking ability, English teachers are suggested to apply appropriate methods by considering students‘ characteristics especially based on their self-esteem. Key words: Contextual Teaching and Learning, Audio-Lingual Method, self-esteem, speaking