ELT Worldwide Volume 7 Number 2 (2020) P-ISSN 2203-3037; E-ISSN 2503-2291 Learning Speaking Through Communicative Grammar On Systematic Functional Linguistics (Sfl) Edy Suseno edysuseno4@gmail.com IKIP Widya Darma Abstract Practicing speaking is very important for students to exchange ideas with others. Although having learned English for the years, many EFL students face problems in delivering the ideas orally. To overcome this kind of problem, an expo de facto research was conducted by observing the students’ scores in two subjects grammar and speaking. The students were in the first semester of the English education major. The research is to find out the material used in teaching grammar to develop speaking learning. To satisfy the aim of this study, the mixed- method was implemented. The data was analyzed qualitatively and confirmed quantitatively by the applying t-test. From the analysis could be drawn that Using translation-method, podcast, noticing, and conversation in applying the communicative-grammar method enhances the students’ competence in speaking. It is very helpful for the teachers and students to implement it in learning grammar and speaking. It also provides the idea to other researchers to dig some deeper innovation in the same field. Keywords: communicative-grammar; podcast; SFL; speaking; translation-method INTRODUCTION People need a tool to interact with others. It is the language. They express their ideas by using their language to exchange information in the form of utterances. They convey a mutual understanding to build a smooth conversation (Koşar & Bedir, 2014). The use of a language for communication is discourse (Gee, 2014). To practice the communication, people develop speech functions stating, asking, commanding, and answering. It enables the speakers and interlocutors to interact with each other (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014). However, Halliday & Matthiessen (2014) said that understanding a language is the way to use the language and structure it in spoken and written. To use the language, people need to have sufficient vocabulary and proper pronunciation in their memory. The vocabulary can be meaningful to convey ideas if grammar plays an important role in it. The grammar rule helps people to build sentences to be meaningful in the context. People use the language in formal and informal differently. It depends on the level of formality in both spoken and written. It makes sense the people’s world experiences (Martin et al., 2010).Systematic functional linguistics (SFL) is a way to analyze the relationship between social context and linguistic aspects like phonemes, morphemes, lexemes, syntax, and context (Halliday & Matthiessen, 2014). The use of grammar to build sentences through vocabulary or