a descriptive study on the use of communicative language teaching (clt) forteaching speaking at sman 1 praya

Learning a language is in need of excessive amount of exposure. sufficient input leading tospeaking fluently and accurately. therefore, communicative competence is far more important skill todevelop. in other words, it implies that communicative language teaching henceforth (clt) is importantteaching method for it is designed to top up students communicative proficiencies. nevertheless, languageteachers (english) paid no attention towards for such method. thus, this research was carried out in orderto investigate and describe the implementation of clt in teaching speaking. this research was intendedto describe the implementation of clt principles by two english teachers at second grade of sman 1praya. the data were obtained through classroom observation and interview with both of the englishteachers. the data were analyzed by using miles and huberman model. the result of this study revealedthat english teachers implemented clt principles through various ways such as teacher-studentsconversation, students- students conversation, and students individual work. the data also showed thatthe classroom activities catered and thrilled the students to communicate in target language i.e. english.moreover, to support the activities and to activate the passive students, the teachers used game, work ingroup, direct interaction, and role play. among supporting activities, game was the most attractedfollowed by role play, group discussion, and direct interaction.