language since they will feel they are learning to do something useful with the language they study”.
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Based on the previous ideas, the writer tries to implement the Communicative Approach in teaching the passive voice of present progressive
tense especially to the second year students of “SMK Islamiyah Ciputat – Tangerang”. Passive voice is chosen in order it seems difficult to be mastered
for its complexity of guideline and formula. A chosen tense for passive voice here is present progressive tense. It aims the research study will not too broad
and present progressive tense expresses events or actions in progress. Therefore, the students will easily find the examples from their nearest
environment. The recent method which is being used in every single teaching there, it is applied Audio Lingual Method, will be compared for both
significance and effectiveness.
B. The Limitation and the Formulation of Problem
1. The Limitation
This study limits the subject matter in teaching Passive Voice of Present Progressive Tense by using Communicative Approach in the
second year students of “SMK Islamiyah Ciputat – Tangerang”. 2.
The Formulation Based on the preceding discussion, the writer would like to
formulize the problem that is whether teaching Passive Voice of Present Progressive Tense by using Communicative Approach is more effective
than using Audio Lingual Method.
C. The Objective of Study
Here are the objectives of study, they are:
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Diane Larsen-Freeman, Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching, New York: Oxford University Press, 1986, p. 133.
1. To contrast the significant difference of results in teaching Passive Voice
of Present Progressive Tense by using Communicative Approach and Audio-Lingual Method.
2. To find out the effectiveness of using Communicative Approach in
teaching Passive Voice of Present Progressive Tense.
D. The Method of Study
In gaining good data, the writer obtains the method of study by using field research. The field research is done by conducting an experiment at two
classes using different methods of teaching. The first class or experiment class, the writer employs the teaching by using Communicative Approach.
Then, another class or controlled class, the writer applies the teaching by using Audio-Lingual Method. The writer gives the pre-test to make the population
becomes homogenous before he does the teaching of passive voice of present progressive tense. And, finally, the writer presents the post-test to inform the
significance differences of results after the lesson is finished.
E. The Hypothesis of Study
1. Alternative Hypothesis H
a
There is a significant difference of the students’ results between using Communicative Approach and using Audio-Lingual Method in
teaching passive voice of present progressive tense. 2.
Null Hypothesis H
o
There is no a significant difference the students’ results between using Communicative Approach and using Audio-Lingual Method in
teaching passive voice of present progressive tense.
F. The Organization of Study
