摘要:This study was conducted to investigate whether implementing communicative
activities, in particular information gap and language games, in Libyan secondary
schools affect students’ speaking performance. A quasi-experimental, nonequivalent,
pre-test-post-test design was conducted on 42 first year Libyan
secondary school students in a private Libyan international school in Malaysia.
Eight different information gap and language game activities based on
communicative language teaching (CLT) principles were implemented for 15-20
minutes during eight sessions. The results from the paired sample t-test indicated
that there was a significant difference between the pre-test compared to the posttest.
Students’ speaking performance improved after implementing the
communicative activities in the classroom. However, the results from the
independent sample-test illustrate differences in mean scores between male and
female students, which are in favour or female students. Nevertheless, the
differences between genders were not statistically different.
关键词:Communicative Language Teaching (CLT); communicative activities;
speaking performance; information gap; language games