Disadvantages of Using Information Gap Activities

F. Conceptual Framework

Speaking is an activity to share the ideas, feelings, and emotion between sender and receiver through oral communication. Actually, the target language is not quite applied in the speaking classroom activity. Most of students consider that it is really difficult to speak in English. For instance, too many grammatical rules, embarrassed, less of confidence, etc. One of communicative activities which can be done in speaking classroom activities is information gap activities. Information gap activity is an activity where one student and another student have different bit information to be shared. The use of information gap activities in the classroom can make the class in real communication situation. Moreover, these activities can be developed by the teachers in many various ways in different practice, for instance identifying picture, discovering missing information, discovering differences, etc. These activities give the students opportunity to share their ideas more in producing utterances using the target language. It also encourages the students to be more active in following teaching and learning activities. Information gap activities provide the students to express and share their own ideas. It can make teaching and learning speaking more enjoyable. Moreover, the students have the same chances in giving their expressions, feeling, and ideas when they learn speaking in the class. Information gap activities will encourage one student to complete the information that they need through asking his or her friends who has the different information. Whereas, the use of conventional technique is one of teaching technique which the teachers have the main role in delivering the materials, the students just listen it carefully or it can be called lecturing type. The students in conventional method class commonly use memorization and drilling technique in accepting materials. Both of memorization and drilling technique are applicable for the students who are in elementary and basic level. Through this technique they can acquire the materials