A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN INFORMATION GAP TASK IN PAIR AND SMALL GROUP WORK OF STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY
INTRODUCTION
According Widowson (1994), speaking is the active production skill and use of oral production. Rivers (1981: 161) explains that students study a foreign language in high school with strong conviction that language means something spoken. The students are often discouraged and lose interest when they find that foreign language study is just like other subjects, learning the book only without any practice. That some problem that faced by students in school. Referring to the description above, information gap technique was an appropriate to solve theproblem and increase the students’ speaking ability. Information gap is one of the tasks that may encourage the students more actively to speak English because it provides more opportunity for students to talk in order to complete their information. Theoretically, Pica and Doughty (1986) state that information gap tasks cope the students to talk more with a number of communication strategies used. Information gap is the activity in which the students are given different information. By sharing the separate information they can complete a task. The researcher tried to find out the better patternfor information gap in order to encourage students to talk.Meanwhile, the context material of the teaching learning was understanding and using transactional dialogue in short conversation. The topics had chosen arekitchen and crossword. Brown (1994: 103) states that?????????????????????????????
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