The Effectiveness of Communicative Purpose Based Approach to Improve Speaking Skills in EAP Setting: A Case Study

Abstract

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is an approach in which the content and the learningactivities applied according to the needs of the English learners. This experimental study involved 26students from the fifth semester of Indonesian Language Education Department at University of PGRISemarang. The data were collected using five different instruments; observation, field notes, interviews,documentation, and performance tests. The data were analyzed using t-test formula and compared to t-table. The results of this study indicate that there is significant value between the pre-test and post-test results. The result of the calculation of t-test is 9.97. Because the t-table is 2.04, it can be concluded that the t-test> ttable. The data shows that the result of the t-test is higher than t-table, it means that the accepted hypothesis is a positive hypothesis which says that "Hi: There is a significant improvement of speaking competence in the case of performing the idea of the elements of the story in the folklores after being taught using Communicative Purpose Based Approach.”

The Improving Student’s Vocabulary through Rewriting English Song Lyric “The Shawn Mendes Foundation Playlist”

“…It has stimulated people to understand English so the song is one of the media for the student and teacher in improving and learning English besides many others media or methods. Students can use short pieces of language that have been memorized even though these pieces may not always be used correctly (Ambarini, 2016). Songs as a means of improving vocabulary mastery, everybody likes to sing a song even though just for fun.…”