THE USE OF TIKTOK CONTENTS INTEGRATED CLT METHOD IN TEACHING SPEAKING SKILL AT INTERMEDIATE CLASS STUDENTS OF DARUSSALAM ECC COURSE IN 2021

ABSTRACT

Nikmah, SL. 2021. The Use Of TikTok Contents Integrated CLT Method In Teaching
Speaking Skill At Intermediate Class Students Of Darussalam ECC
Course In 2021.

Key word : TikTok, CLT method, speaking skill.
This research is an experimental research which is aimed to encourage the students
speaking skill in speaking term of fluency and comprehension through TikTok contents as
media which is integrated with CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) method. This
research is done at ECC (English Conversation Club) Course of intermediate level students in
2021 which consist of ten students. This research was conducted by seeing complex problems
and difficulties of students in gaining completed value of speaking skill, which is proved by
less ability in having completed English speaking values in learning activities. In other
words, they still mixed their language to communicate verbally each other to their target
language due to lack fluency of the speaking, they are less in giving opinion, ideas, views,
argumentative and the like. Other factors which cause poor ability of students speaking are
their lack confident, lack of grammatical structure, media learning of the teacher and
methodology of teaching.
Speaking is one of four English skill which belong to productive skill. It need
complicated aspects for gaining maximal ability result of the students rather than receptive
skills such as reading and listening. Those aspects include the methodology of teaching,
media learning of the teacher and also knowledge background. CLT is one appropriate
method of teaching speaking skill due to the problems which the students face above. By
having communicative learning, it help the students to get inside the target language in direct.
Besides, it also minimize the lack of confidence due to grammatical rule is not intensively
presented in this method. In addition, the contents of TikTok also can minimize their lack idea
and support the students in encouraging and improving the idea of their speaking.

This research involved mixed-method as the research design through quasi-
experimental for the board purpose of depth in understanding and collaboration of analyze

the data. In combining the data, the researcher involved sequential-explanatory strategy
where quantitative data lead more than qualitative data. Besides, this research is done by six
meetings which consist of pre-test, experiments and post-test. The research also focused on
the students who have low scores on their pre-test. The quantitative data were obtained by
survey and experiments, population, sample, instrumentation, validity and data analysis.
Meanwhile, observation, interview and audio-visual recording and interpretation are kinds of
process in gaining the current result through qualitative process.
There are some significant aspects where the students were increased by TikTok
contents integrated CLT method such as vocabulary, fluency, pronunciation, grammatical and
comprehension. It was proved by the result of T-Test which resulted T value (6000) >T (table
2,776). Beside, from the questionnaire resulted high values of each item. It refers to the high
response of the students in perceiving CLT as teaching method. Also, the interview result
obtained good response related the use of TikTok video contents as the learning media to
support ideas and knowledge. By applied this method, the students were have more
confidence, interesting, enthusiastic, active and creative in producing ideas of speaking also
got fluency of their speaking.