the use of Information-Gap in learning speaking of second grade students of MTs Khazanah Kebajikan Pondok Cabe Ilir is effective.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
A. The Conclusion
The result of learning speaking skill considered not satisfactory when students cannot use English to communicate. It can be argue that Information Gap
as one of the classroom activities which promoted in communicative language teaching can be very suitable to be applied in learning speaking.
In order to make learners are able to use the target language to communicate,
Information gap activity is applied. It is an activity which train students to use the target language to communicate as in real life by asking the students to share
information with their peers so that they can complete a task. By using Information Gap students are actively involved in teaching learning process and
they are trained to use the target language to communicate. It might be concluded that by implementing Information Gap in learning
speaking it can improve the students speaking skill than the students who are not exposed with this activity.
While according to the result of statistical calculation of the research, it shows that the value of t
o
t observation is 5.520. After consulting to t
t,
she obtained t
t
is smaller than t
o
in degree of significance 5 that is t
t
: t
o
2.000 5.520.
Finally, it is stated that the hypothesis of the research “the students’
speaking ability is higher where the information-gap activity is conducted than the students’ speaking ability in where the information-gap activity is not
conducted
” is accepted. On the contrary, the result of calculation showed that Ho
null hypothesis. “There is no significant difference between the students speaking score taught by using Information-Gap experiment class and taught
without Information-
Gap control class” is rejected.
