TEACHING SPEAKING USING GAMES FOR PRIMARY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOL PUPILS IN DUHOK
Abstract
This research investigates the impact of the use of communicative educational games on the speaking skill of Kurdish EFL learners from age 8 to 11 in public and private schools in Duhok city. 86 fourth and fifth primary school grade pupils took part in this study. Four groups, two experimental and two control groups, from public and private schools were taught by the researchers for 3 months. The experimental groups were taught using communicative games for teaching speaking skill. The control groups were taught using the traditional way of teaching by exactly following their textbooks. The learners were assessed before the start of teaching as a pre-instruction assessment and again at the end of teaching as a post-instruction assessment to measure the rate of impact of using the communicative games compared to the traditional teaching methods. The assessment was done through a rubric that measures five variables in speaking including speech clarity, voice loudness, detailed speech, eye-contact and interaction with the teacher and other pupils. The Results show a substantial improvement of all the measured variables in all four groups, the experimental and the control groups
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G2 identifies the control group of 4th-stage pupils at Duhok British International private school.
G3 identifies the experimental group of 5th-year pupils at Charsteen public school in Duhok.
G4 identifies the control group of 5th-year pupils at Charsteen public school in Duhok.
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