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3. Related Studies on Communicative Language Teaching CLT
This part presents some related studies on CLT. Dornyei 2010 studied the use of the characteristics of Communicative Language Teaching CLT to
explore the roots of the diverse interpretation. His study discussed CLT method and find out what needs to be revised according to the findings of psycholinguistic
research. The proposal of revising was still in term of the principle of the communicative approach. In his study, CLT is used to teach L2 students.
Ozsevik 2010 used CLT in his study to teach English as a foreign language to Turkish students. The use of CLT did not work well because of many
reasons. The first is because the teachers lacked the time and energy to devise CLT materials and activities due to their heavy workload. The second is the
references available were not sufficient to meet the needs of CLT program in teaching. The last is because there was not enough number of teachers to teach
many students in Turkey. The teaching learning activities mostly focused on grammar. As such, speaking and listening were neglected.
Adelita 2010 studied the usage of CLT in designing a set of English speaking materials for registration and information staff of Panti Rapih hospital.
Her study also used RD as the methodology and the theory of Yalden and Dick Reiser in the instructional design. Her study was successfully designed.
This study also uses CLT as the basic method in designing a set of English speaking materials for the eleventh grade social science students of SMA N 1
Depok. This study combined two design steps of Kemp and Dick Carey which became the researcher’s design model. The big methodology which covered the
25 design step is RD. The whole steps of designing a set of English speaking
materials were under RD steps. What makes this study is different from the previous study is that all the designed materials were also implemented to the
students. Besides, the participants of the study were also different from the previous studies.
4. Teaching English in Senior High School
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