The Use of CLL to Teach Speaking at Tur Ya Kar Elementary School: Implementation and Students’ Responses

Abstract

Speaking is one of the important skills to master. The importance of learning speaking skills helps people to share their ideas, agreement or disagreement, compliment, and so on to others. Some students felt a lack of practice in learning English because they don't have enough support, including those in Taiwan. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to investigate how do teacher use CLL in speaking activity and what are the students' responses in speaking activity with the use of CLL at Tur Ya Kar Elementary School.The instruments used for this qualitative study were semi-structured interview questions and reflective journal protocol. The participants were one English teacher and 32 Elementary School students at Tur Ya Kar elementary school in Taiwan. Data from the semi-structured interview were recorded, then transcribed. After that, themes were drawn based on the transcribed interviews. Based on the data, it was found that the English teacher applied CLL to teach the English language. Some activities such as group discussion and Think-Pair-Share were done. These activities were useful because students can gain more vocabulary, a fun atmosphere created inside the classroom, and better fluency and pronunciation.