The Effect of Communicative Activities on Libyan Secondary School Students’ Speaking Performance in Malaysia
Year: 2018
Type: article
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: 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.
Authors: Eman Abdussalam Owen, Abu Bakar Razali
Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2889653616