A STUDY ON THE EFFECTS OF IMPLEMENTING COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITIES ON STUDENTS' ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS: THE CASE OF GRADE 11 STUDENTS OF MOYALE SECONDARY SCHOOL

<strong>ABSTRACT: </strong>This research was conducted to study the effects of implementing communicative activities on students speaking skills. A quasi- experimental design combining with a mixed method data gathering tools was used to conduct the study. Data were gathered through pre-test post-test of students speaking ability, attitude questionnaires, and classroom observation and teachers interview. The participants consisted of 33 Moyale Secondary School grade 11 section C students, who were selected by convenience sampling procedure. In Moyale secondary there were four language teachers. Therefore, using comprehensive sampling technique all English language teachers of Moyale Secondary School included in the study. The researcher implemented different communicative activities for the experiment in order to see students speaking ability improvement and used different statistical tools such as, descriptive, SPSS version 20 and paired sampled t-test to calculate the gathered data. The results revealed statistical difference between students’ speaking ability test before (M=2.35) and after learning through communicative activities (M=2.76).The study indicated that there is a significant relation between communicative activities and students speaking ability, since P value of 0.001 paired sample t-test&lt;0.05.The observation checklist also confirmed that students had showed some progress (Mean of pretest=1.6) and (Mean of post-test= 3.5).The findings showed that the learners had positive attitudes to the implementation of communicative activities.. The study also revealed that the factors that affect the implementation of communicative activities related to teachers, students, exam systems and lack of supporting materials. The study provides practical recommendations for teachers, school administrators, local stakeholders, and policy makers to improve teachers training, and situational constraints to improve the implementation of communicative activities to improve students speaking skill.