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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS IN CLASS TOWARDS

STUDENTS’ COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE

SYATAF AKHIMULLAH

INTRODUCTION

• In any language classroom, the ultimate goal would be to guide the students into achieving communicative competence

• The only way to assess the students’ understanding of the language is by evaluating their ability to communicate

BACKGROUND OF THE RESEARCH

• Communicative competence among students in a classroom has always been a matter

• This issue occurs even in ESL classes

• This research focuses on the students’ communicative competence in classroom

PROBLEM STATEMENT

• Due to the quite a big number of students in most classes, lecturers find that several students are still having some issues when they need to converse in English and this research has been conducted to look on a perspective of the possible reasons of this matter.

RESEARCH OBJECTIVES

• To find the effectiveness of the communicative competence in a small group discussion.

• To study the changes of communicative competence on a different scale of group discussion.

• To propose solutions to the problems of communicative competence in a classroom.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

• What are the effects of communicative competence on a small group discussion?

• What changes occur on communicative competence with a different scale of group discussion?

• Why does the changes of communicative competence occur with different scale of group discussion?

• How does small group discussion effect the student’s communicative competence in a classroom?

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

Changes on communicati

ve competence

Small group discussion

Effects on communicat

ive competence

Student’s communicat

ive competence

RESEARCH DESIGN

• Qualitative method is used in this research

• Fully structured interview

• Interviews has been conducted to both students and lecturers population

RESEARCH INSTRUMENTS

• A set of questions that that will aim to answer all 4 Research Questions

• The questions are divided into 4 different parts to make it easier to analyse• The effects of communicative competence on a small group discussion.

• The changes occurred on communicative competence with a different scale of group discussion

• The cause of the changes of communicative competence occur with different scale of group discussion

• The relationship between small group discussion and the student’s communicative competence in a classroom

• The results collected were from the students and lecturers from KPTM Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

DATA ANALYSISRQ Instruments Data analysis

What are the effects of communicative competence on a small group

discussion? 

Questionnaire FrequencyMeanStandard deviation

What changes occur on communicative competence with a different size of

group discussion? 

Questionnaire/Interview TranscriptionCodingContent analysis

Why does the changes of communicative competence occur with different

scale of group discussion? 

Questionnaire/Interview TranscriptionCodingContent analysis

How does small group discussion effect the student’s communicative

competence in a classroom?  

Questionnaire FrequencyMeanStandard deviation