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2. Teacher said the expression, and then the students repeated after her.
3. Teacher drilled the students to repeat the expressions.
4. Teacher asked students to memorize those expressions.
c. Joint Construction of the Text
1. Teacher explained the procedure of the activity.
2. The students practiced doing conversation in the form of Information
Gap task in group of four. 3.
The task was in form of Information Gap involved “Find someone who …” activity. Each student got one students’ worksheet which
contains a lot of clue questions for them to ask their friends’ opinion in a group.
d. Independent Construction of the Text
1. Students came forward to perform their dialogues with their partner.
2. The teacher closed the lesson.
2. Teaching Learning Activity IV
Information Gap was still used to develop the students’ speaking skill as well as the previous activity. However, the material used was different in
teaching learning activity IV. The elaborations of the procedures were as follows:
a. Building Knowledge of the Field BKOF
1. The teacher opened the lesson by greeting the students.
2. The teacher checked the students’ attendance list
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3. Teacher asks some questions related to the material of expressing like
and dislike.
b. Modelling of the Text MOT
1. Teacher explained the material based on the situation.
2. Teacher said the expression, and then the students repeated after her.
3. Teacher drilled the students to repeat the expressions.
4. Teacher asked students to memorize those expressions.
c. Joint Construction of the Text
1. The students practiced doing conversation in the form of Information
Gap task in group of six. 2.
Teacher explained the procedure of the activity. 3.
Each student got one worksheet which contains some key words of personal hobbies called Information Gap task.
4. The task had to be filled by asking and answering each member
group. 5.
Each student got one chance to ask and answer one question.
d. Independent Construction of the Text
1. Students came forward to perform their dialogues with their partner.
2. Teacher assessed the students’ work by recording the dialogue.
3. Teacher closed the lesson.
C. Observing
The students’ activities and their cooperation in their groups as well as the teaching learning process were observed in this step by using fields note see
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appendix 7-8. Beside that, the students’ opinion about the implementation of Information Gap in teaching speaking were also analysed by using a
questionnaire appendix 11.
D. Reflecting
In this step, the results of observation during the acting step were evaluated in order to know the improvement of the cycle 1 up to cycle 2. The
researcher noticed that group work was more effective than pair work that made the students looked free and enthusiastic in doing the Information Gap
activity which was also supported by choosing the material based on the standard competence and basic competence which was closely related to the
students’ activity. Therefore, the researcher could formulate the suggested step of using Information Gap in developing the students’ speaking skill.
3.7 Scoring Technique
