This small-scale quasi-experimental research was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of Info Gap game in improving students’ speaking skills in ESL classroom and explore the students’ perception of Info Gap game.
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ABSTRACT
This small-scale quasi-experimental research was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of Info Gap game in improving students’ speaking skills in ESL classroom and explore the students’ perception of Info Gap game. The study participants were 32 mixed-ability students of Year 5 from a government primary school located in urban area of Kuala Lumpur who scored Band 2 and 3 in previous classroom based speaking assessment. Info Gap game is a communicative game based on Communicative Language Teaching which implemented in pairs within 15-20 minutes for 6 sessions. The results from the paired sample t-test indicated that there is a significant difference between pre and post-test speaking scores of experimental group students. The students’ speaking skills improve significantly after the implementation of Info Gap game. In addition, the independent sample test also revealed that there is a significant difference between control and experimental group. Meanwhile, questionnaire and semi-structured interview session revealed that the students believe that Info Gap game is a fun and interesting game which helped to improve their speaking skills.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
First and foremost, I
would like to express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Dr Liliati Ismail
for committing herself to supervise me throughout this project with great determination
and invaluable guidance.
I would like to thank my both
parents, Mr Nadarajan Subramaniam and Mrs Neelaveni Palusamy for their constant
moral support and mellifluous affection which helped me to achieve success in
every sphere of life and without their love and care, this thesis would have
been a sheer dream.
I am also thankful to my both
siblings, Agilan Nadarajan and Yamunah Nadarajan for their humour,
light-heartedness and encouragement during this research work.
I would like to extend my special
thanks to my friend, Rekha Doraisingam for constructive discussions, perseverance
and motivation during this time consuming effort of mine.
I sincerely acknowledge the effort
of all those who have directly or indirectly helped me in completing my thesis
successfully.
