Communicative Competence in Speaking Activities of English Textbook for Eleventh Grade Students at Senior High School

This study aimed to investigate the communicative competence in the speaking
activity of English Textbook for eleventh-grade students. This study was a
qualitative approach using content analysis. The data and source of data were the
instructions of speaking activities in eight chapters of the English Textbook for
Eleventh Grade Students at SMA Swasta PAB 1 Medan Estate, entitled Bahasa
Inggris Stop Bullying Now. The data were collected by observing the book, write
the instructions, and group all of the instructions into speaking communicative
activities by (Littlewood, 2018), the namely communicative continuum. The data
were analyzed using qualitative data analysis by (Miles et al., 2014). The results
proved that communicative speaking activities in the textbook have five stages,
namely non-communicative learning (11.76%), pre-communicative language
practice (41.17%), communicative language practice (14.70%), structured
communication (23.52%), and authentic communication (8.82%).