THE USE OF REALLIFE APPLICATION IN LEARNING COMMUNICATIVE ENGLISH SKILL OF INDEPENDENT STUDENT EXCHANGE IN 6th SEMESTER ENGLISH DEPARTMENT AT NOMMENSEN HKBP UNIVERSITY MEDAN

Abstract

This study aimed to find out how the use of RealLife application helped the independent students exchange in 6th semester English department at Nommensen HKBP University Medan in learning communicative English skill or generally speaking skill. The methodology of this study was classroom action research (CAR) where the researcher only used one cycle. The data were collected by using quantitative and qualitative. Quantitative data was taken from three tests, they were pre – observation test, pre – test and post – test. All the tests showed the percentage of students’ improvement in learning communicative English. From 20% - 75% students have applied it when speaking English with friends and others. The findings of this study was communicative English skill has understood by students well and RealLife application as the media which succeed made them got their confidence and freedom to speak English with people because it provided circumstances where they didn’t meet anyone who always criticized about their mistakes and also they would never got bully or discrimination by people in RealLife.