PROCEEDING AISELT (Annual International Seminar on English Language Teaching) Available online at https://jurnal.untirta.ac.id/index.php/aiselt ELT IN A GLOBALIZED WORLD: THE BOUNDARIES AND BEYOND 105 Improving Sstudents’ Speaking Skill Through Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Method at The Tenth Grade of Tebuireng 8 Islamic Boarding School (MA) Banten Tosi Rut Syamsun a 1 , Aisyah Hamidiyah b University of Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa University of Sultan Ageng Tirtaysa APA Citation: Syamsun, T.R., & Hamidiyah, A. (2021). Improving Sstudents’ Speaking Skill Through Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Method at The Tenth Grade of Tebuireng 8 Islamic Boarding School (MA) Banten. PROCEEDING AISELT (Annual International Seminar on English Language Teaching), 6(1), 105-115 Abstract The objective of this research was to find out the improvement of Students Speaking Skill through Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Method at The Tenth Grade of Tebuireng 8 Islamic Boarding School. The researcher used quantitative research implementing true experimental design as the research method. There two classes used in this research. The control class and experimental class. Sample of this research is students Tebuireng 8 Islamic Boarding School, 20 students from each class. The researcher found that there was significant improvement of students speaking skill through CLT method, indicated by the value of t-test higher than the value of t-table (4 > 2.024) it means that alternative hypothesis was accepted. From those findings, the result of this research showed that Improving Students Speaking Skill through Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Method is highly encouraged. Keywords: Teaching Speaking. Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) Introduction Speaking is one of the productive skills of English that is applied to communicate orally. The most important thing in speaking skill is the students are able to produce the words, arrange the sentence in their mind and convey what want to be said. There are many factors which make difficult for students to be able to speak English. Other reason is because of motivation lack to practice the second language in daily conversation. They felt worried about the grammar and pronunciation when they want to speak English in English learning class. These problems are similar with the researcher observation study at Tebuireng 8 Islamic Boarding School. The result of observation showed that there were some problems in students’ speaking skill especially the tenth grade. The students have anxiety to speak English in front of the class, lack of vocabularies and low ability in mastering the speaking skills. It made the students get the difficulties to arranging the certain sentence. Adding the information, the researcher had interviewed the teacher. The 1 Corresponding author. E-mail address: tosirut@gmail.com