Utilization of Communication Games’ Strategy in Promoting EFL Pupils' Speaking Skills

Abstract

This study aims at investigating the utilization of communication games’ strategy in promoting EFL pupils’ speaking skill. EFL students at basic schools face difficulties and hindrances when they start to speak in English; therefore, this study intends to help them overcome those problems. The researcher has adopted empirical and descriptive methods. Two instruments have been used as primary tools for collecting the data relevant to the study, namely a questionnaire for teachers of English language at various basic schools and oral pre-post tests for sixth year pupils' at Hairman Basic School for Girls and Khalid IbnAlwalid Basic School for Boys in Khartoum Locality. The study sample of questionnaire comprises (50) teachers whereas the oral (pre-post) test involves (40) pupils. Also, ten pupils were interviewed for a short time concerning their impressions about communication games. So, both quantitative and qualitative tools are employed. The researcher applied (SPSS) program to analyze and verify the hypotheses. The study results are; firstly, playing games is an effective technique for engaging pupils in using English language verbally as long as possible. Secondly, it is clear that teachers involved in this study strongly agree that using communication games’ strategy is useful to EFL students because of its positive impact on students’ output in verbal classroom interaction. Thirdly, students are kinesthetic and enthusiastic in using communication games in classroom in a way that fosters their speaking skill. On the light of these results, the researcher recommends that games should be employed for verbal classroom interaction to improve the pupils’ speaking skill. Curricula designers, educators, and experts should include sufficient language games in the syllabus in order to courage and motivate the pupils in learning the foreign language. Teachers’ role should be changed from an instructor who dominates the class into an educator whose role is to help, support, and guide the pupils to acquire the foreign language. Finally, the study includes someother recommendations and concludes with some suggestions for further studies.