Key words : Information Gap Activities, Teaching, Speaking Descriptive Text.
Information gap activity requires the students to complete the missing
information that they have already had. Students will exchange the information with
their friends through asking each other question in order to get complete
information. Information gap make the students more concerned with the meaning.
In other words, it makes the students more cocentrate on meaning and how to use a
language rather than put attention in form of language structure. The objective of
the study To describe how is the process of teaching speaking by information gap
activity to The Tenth Grade of SMK PGRI 2 Sidoarjo and To describe the response
of students’s speaking after using Information gap activity to the Tenth Grade Of
SMK PGRI 2 Sidoarjo. , The researcher used descriptive qualitative as the design
of the find out teaching speaking through Information Gap Activities to the tenth
grade students of SMK PGRI 2 SIDOARJO. The purpose of the study was to
describe the information gap activities in speaking. The data were obtained from
several sources including, the researcher herself, field note and a set of
questionnaire. The subject was X-APK 1 students at SMK 2 PGRI Sidoarjo in
academic year 2017/2018, which consisted of 38 students. The researcher found
that the implementation of teaching speaking descriptive text by using information
gap almost was done perfectly and effectively. These activities are effective
because everybody has the opportunity to talk with their friends extensively in the
target language. The students really enthusiastic to study descriptive text and
searched the information about the picture and they can shared well with the
member of the group. Based on the result of the questionnare From the
questionnaire the researcher got the result that there were more students like using
information gap activities, they could focus, interested, enjoy the lesson and
understood the material. But there were some of students were not like information
gap activities in learning speaking English.