The Use of Contextual Teaching and Learning for Speaking Class at Islamic Affiliated Schools: A Case in Indonesia

Abstract

The need of speaking ability is such paramount as global citizens. The teaching English in Indonesia is dominated with traditional
approach. The use of Contextual Teaching and Learning as approach is in the line of the Indonesia Education Framework with
five issues. Teaching English with speech and storytelling based Islamic selected topics as the response on the framework. The
current research used action research and employing Kemmis and Taggart Research Desain. Data gained from qualitative data in
from of interview, observation and filed notes. Meanwhile, the quantitative is used to obtain students’ score. The result of the
study revealed that Islamic selected topics could improve both speech and storytelling score. The findings and some
recommendations were also deeply discussed.