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conducting a research. Finally, the importance of English has become the main subject to be concerned almost in every field.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
In the teaching learning process, the students learn English as a foreign language. They certainly get the difficulties to use it. Those problems absolutely occur when
they communicate with other people in the real life situation. It can be, first, they are afraid of applying English itself as their native language. Second, they don’t
know what to say. Third, the materials also can not represent the students’ need and willingness.
There are several reasons why I choose the topic are: 1.
I intend to use whether or not the audio-lingual method can improve students’ oral past tense rather than other methods such as grammar-translation and
direct method. 2.
I also would like to help the students who have troubles or mistakes to speak English especially in oral past tense as well as their native language by using
audio-lingual method. 3.
Speaking is one of the four basic skills in language. Its main goal is to use English communicatively and effectively in the daily life situation. It seems
useless when the people or students learn English for a long time, but they never practise it. Moreover, the correct grammatical terms will help the
students’speaking skill easily understandable. Thus, the existence of audio-
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lingual method is expected to improve students’ speaking skill either in the classroom or in the social activity.
Because of those reasons, I choose this topic about the use of audio-lingual method to improve students’ oral past tense as a final project.
1.3 Statements of the Problems
There are two problems occur in this study. It is presented as follows: 1.
How is the Audio-lingual Method implemented in grade X.4 of SMA Kesatrian 1 Semarang?
2. To what extent does the Audio-lingual Method improve the oral past tense of
the tenth grade students of SMA Kesatrian 1 Semarang?
1.4 Objectives of the Research
The objectives of this research are: 1.
to implement the Audio-lingual Method in grade X.4 of SMA Kesatrian 1 Semarang in teaching learning process, and
2. to know the extent of using Audio-lingual Method improves the oral past tense
of SMA Kesatrian 1 Semarang students especially for the grade X.4 ones.
1.5 Significance of the Study
