The Effects Of Practicing Communicative Approach In The Teaching Of Speaking Skill

The challenge of producing quality manpower among Malaysians as to achieve the target of Vision 2020 had brought an impact towards the teaching of English language throughout Malaysia. Although the communicative approach (CA) had been implemented for more than twenty years in our Malaysian educational policy, it was revealed that there is still a gap between the teaching processes and the achievement of the students’ oral performance. It is being identified that the marks do not reflect students’ actual acquisition level in speaking where students still faced problems in having conversations although they managed to score A in their SPM examination. Thus, this study had discovered the importance of maintaining the communicative approach (CA) in the teaching of speaking skill among Malaysians’ students.