Conclusion Now let us sum up this qualification work. The qualification work consists of two chapters. The tasks and objectives are given in introduction. The idea of the work is given in the main part, where showed the novelty of the work, which contains many strategies, methods and activities which can have great influence on improving students’ language skills. After using them in English classes we knew which of them considered tobe effective and engaging for students and which had less impact on learning. Besides, we observed some speaking classes in which teachers used various strategies for each language learner style, which we are going to express in this final qualification paper. In conclusion it can be summed up and suggested to use these strategies in schools and universities
The qualification paper deals with techniques and procedures how to improve the speaking skills of students by using information gap activities. It can be stated that the improvement of the students’ speaking skills was highly related to the use of information gap activities in the teaching learning process. First, information gap activities were conducted in pairs or in groups. Hence, the activity gave the students more opportunities to practice their speaking by communicating certain information to the other friends. Next, information gap activities also increased the students’ motivation and confidence to speak in English. The activities require students to use the target language to fill in the gap. Hence, by using the target language continuously, the students felt motivated and confident to speak in English. Second, the improvement also reflected from the teaching learning process. The students were more active in the speaking class. They discussed well by actively asking and answering the questions. Besides, the students also understood the classroom English very well. They were able to comprehend the target language spoken by the teacher. Third, the students were able to increase their vocabulary. The students got exposure that made them able to get a lot of new vocabulary related to the materials they learnt.
The use of information gap activities in the speaking class also facilitated the students to interact with the others by asking and giving the information in the target language. Thus, the implementation of information gap activities was believed to be able to improve the students’ speaking skills.
In the process of writing our graduation paper we revealed the importance and role of Information Gap Activity and its principles, procedures and benefits in foreign language learning and teaching and implementation of effective speaking in English language classes are given as a matter of research.