d. Conducting Pre-Communicative Activities
Commonly, the implementation of pre-communicative activities focused on comprehension such as presentation of the input text and also comprehension
tasks which allowed the students to comprehend expressions used in real life situations. The activities focused on the grammar comprehension were given as
the controlled practices focusing on students‘ accuracy later in the communicative activities. The implementation of the pre-communicative
activities focused on language such as grammar exercises, vocabulary enrichment and pronunciation check. These activities allowed the students to practice the
language functions accurately and to practice the pronunciation. They also had the chance to learn grammar implicitly through making sentences, translating or
correcting sentences.
e. Conducting Communicative Activities
In conducting communicative activities, I set students to work individually, in pairs or groups, depending on the activities. During the cycle I, I conducted
activities, su ch as ―Give me Suggestions, Please‖ activities which were
successful to improve their speaking skills. Through these activities they could get more opportunities to learn to use English for communication. They could
practice with their partners and most of them were even confident to give their own opinion in front of the class.
Although the teaching and learning processes seemed to be improved, the way of the teaching still only focused on the targets to accomplish the tasks mentioned in
the lesson plan. Therefore, I tended to be focused on the activities. However, the
personality of the students mattered so much, since some students were very confident, some others were not. Some were very attentive and some were not.
Their English ability was also various. Some students still felt that they could not keep up with their friends. I should give more opportunities for these students and
should not let other students dominate the class. Another problem was that the teacher did not control the class very well especially when they were grouped, so
that some students were noisy and they talked about other issues which were not relevant to the lesson.
f. Giving Feedback for Students‟ Speaking Skills
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