Communicative games as alternative method to enhance speaking skills: A case study

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Abstract:This study aims at using communicative games as an alternative method to enhance speaking skill. The research seeks to answer the questions of how communicative games help in reinforcing vocabulary and grammar in speaking, how communicative games help improve pronunciation and fluency and finally how effective are communicative games in the teaching process of the acquisition of English as foreign language in the classroom. This research was conducted in a language institute in the city of Loja where 27 high school students took part in a study as participants and one English teacher within a period of 10 weeks. The instruments used were pre and post survey, pre and post-test and an observation sheet. The data collected was done through the qualitative and quantitative methods. The information collected was revised, tabulated and analysed to see if objectives of this study were reached. It was concluded that the use of communicative games is an effective strategy to improve the communicative competence of EFL learners and teachers should integrate these activities in their daily lessons to facilitate learning process.