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good interaction among students and teacher. All indicators above make the activities of speaking monotonous and boring for the students. Those
problems existed because there were some causes which made speaking skill still need more attentions. Those are: 1 teaching speaking skill doesn’t have
enough time for students to practice in class; 2 the role of teacher in class is more dominated than the opportunity of students in speaking; 3 the materials
used by the teacher in speaking class come from course books without providing any communicative activities; 4 the technique of teaching
speaking does not challenge the students to speak up; and 5 technique in grouping cannot stimulate the students to interact one another.
4. The solution
Since the technique of speaking was not communicative and made a little improvement in achievement, this research is focused on the technique of
teaching and learning of speaking. It is important to give an alternative technique to improve students’ competence in speaking. The technique is
named Communicative group Technique CGT. CGT is a technique of teaching speaking by deviding students into a small group to conduct the
communicative activities or projects such as games, pictures differences, describing pictures, discussion, role play, and question – answer. This
technique is in line with cooperative learning which has some characteristics as
follows: positive
interdependent, group
interaction, individual
accountability, development of small group social skill, and group processing. CGT also requires social interaction and negotiation of meaning among
heterogeneous group members engaged in tasks in which all group members have something to contribute to learn from the other members Crandall in
Arnold, 1999: 226. There are two activities in communicative group technique: the way in grouping and doing communicative activities in a group.
4. The reason of choosing CGT
The reason of choosing CGT is based on the positive offers in teaching and learning of speaking. Every student has responsibility in his or her own
projects, students have a chance to speak up in a group. It is interesting to make a group in different ways. Grouping makes students speak as frequently
as possible. It is expected, by applying the communicative group technique, the problems in teaching learning of speaking would be overcome, because
there are some good considerations: 1making groups in various ways is very interesting.; 2 giving communicative activities in teaching process would be
enjoyfull to get experiences through various activities, so they can communicate with others in different situations; 3 every student has hisher
own responsibilities based on the task given by the teacher; and 4 students have self-confidence to speak in a group.
B. Problem Statements
