THE APPLICATION OF COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING (CLT) IN DEVELOPING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SPEAKING SKILL

Harmer, Jeremy Third Edition (2003:1) states although English is not the language with the largest of native or first language speakers, it has become a lingua franca. A lingua franca can be defined as a language widely adopted for communication between two speakers whose native languages are different from each other's and where one or both speakers are using it as a second language.
One of the basic problems in teaching the foreign language is to prepare learners to be able to use the language. There are some needs and be able to do in order to speak in another language, one needs and be able to do in order to speak in another language, one needs to know how to articulate sounds in a comprehensible manner, one needs an adequate vocabulary, and one needs to have mastery of syntax. The linguistic competence is so necessary because the linguistic competence also helps the student who wants to communicate to other people in the foreign language besides the student knows the vocabulary.