COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES IMPLEMENTED BY ENGLISH TEACHERS IN TEACHING ENGLISH TO THE STUDENTS OF GRADE XI SMAN 2 KOTA BENGKULU

This study aimed at finding out the communicative activities implemented by
English teachers in teaching English at grade eleventh of SMAN 2 Kota Bengkulu
and the communicative activity frequently implemented by English teachers in
teaching english at grade eleventh of SMAN 2 Kota Bengkulu. This study used
quantitative method to collect and analyze data. The subject of the research was
the English teachers who were teaching english subject at SMAN 2 Kota
Bengkulu. There were two English teachers teaching English subject at grade
eleventh of Senior High School. The intruments used in this research were
observation checklist. The findings of this research were: (1) there were thirteen
types of communicative activities that were used by English teachers in teaching
English at grade eleventh of SMAN 2 Kota Bengkulu, they were; questions and
answer, discussion, dialogue, situational practice, retelling, translation,
information gap, simulation, brainstorming, interview, story completion,
reporting, and class survey. (2) Communicative activity that was mostly used by
teachers in teaching English at grade eleventh of SMAN 2 Kota Bengkulu was
question and answer activity.
Key words: Teaching Speaking, Communicative Activities