THE REVIEWING OF BENEFITS OF INFORMATION GAP ACTIVITIES IN TEACHING SECOND LANGUAGE SITUATION

Abstract

Since the existing of communicative language teaching (CLT), a great deal of research has explored the role of communicative activities in language learning. Such research has studied different ways of improving students' language skills.  Activities are one way to practice the target language inside the classroom. Although there are many activities that encourage practicing the target language, the present paper tends to review information gap activities based on communicative language teaching approach. The aim is to investigate this approach through the review of literature and to determine the trend of the research done on information gap activities and their benefits in teaching the second language.