6. Extensive monologue It is given for intermediate to advanced students who can explore their ability in
extending monologue in the form of oral reports, summaries, or short speeches. The students must use the target language to share their ideas, thought, opinions,
and feelings. As the example, the student has the complete picture of building then must give it to his or her classmate. It is called „information gap-activities’, where the
two speakers have different information and what will they do are to complete the information because there is a gap between them.
B. Information Gap Activities
1. The Definition of Information Gap Activities
Information gap is one of a crucial aspect of communication in Communicative Language Teaching CLT. According to Richards, the nature of communicative
language teaching is more emphasized in practicing real life communication in the meaningful context.
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It is emerged as one of the technique in communicative language teaching method. Information gap-activities are an activity which is each
student has different bit of information and they have to complete and share each other.
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In addition, Harmer states that information gap activities are the activity where two speakers have different bit information and they have to complete it
because there is a gap between them.
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According to those definitions, the writer concludes that information gap-activities are a condition where the students have
different information; they have to share it to their friends because there is a „gap’ between them in order to complete the information given.
In the class room’s activity the teacher asked for creating a real situation of
communication context therefore the students can improve in practicing the target
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See: Jack C. Richards, Communicative Language Teaching Today, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp. 4.
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See: Jeremy Harmer, The Practice of English Language Teaching. Third Edition, New York: Longman Publishing, 1996, p. 95.
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See: Jeremy Harmer, How to Teach English, Harlow: Pearson Education Limited, 1998, p. 88.
