The effect of communicative activities on Libyan secondary school students’ speaking performance in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Owen, Eman Abdussalam, Razali, Abu Bakar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: International Journal of Instruction 2018
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54226/1/The%20effect%20of%20communicative%20activities%20on%20Libyan%20secondary%20school%20students%E2%80%99%20speaking%20performance%20in%20Malaysia.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/54226/; http://www.e-iji.net/volumes/352-october-2018,-volume-11,-number-4

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.