Through communicative approach to enhance students’ English speaking skills in Malaysia

Abstract

The English speaking proficiency in Malaysia students has seen a declining over the last few decades due to various factors, which makes them less competitive in the job market. Thus how to enhance Malaysian students speaking competence become a hot issue. Due to the limitation of the traditional grammar dwelling method in certain area such as oral speaking component, a new teaching approach is been introduced. Communicative Language Method, or known as CLT is the new trend in language teaching methodology.In this action research, the objective is to prepare a project launched to find out whether communicative approach will be able to enhance students’ speaking skills efficiently. Both qualitative and quantitative method will be applied.