scholarly journals Modern technologies and mobile apps in developing speaking skill

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S2) ◽  
pp. 1216-1225
Author(s):  
Rustamova Adash Eshankulovna
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Mobile Apps ◽  
First Century ◽  
Language Abilities ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Recognition Software ◽  
Speaking Skills

Speaking is one of the abilities that students must develop when studying English. Speaking is a necessary technique for communication. Improving pupils' speaking ability has long been a priority in the classroom. Various novel technologies are being developed to educate speaking skills in classrooms in the rapidly expanding twenty-first century. Technology is the means through which we may gain access to this updated environment. Technology has been viewed as a means of assisting pupils in improving language abilities such as speaking ability. The Internet, podcasts, video conferencing, movies, and voice recognition software are regarded as the most effective instruments for training public speaking. The purpose of this paper is to explore some of the current tools that are accessible to English instructors today to help second or foreign language learners improve their speaking skills.

Students’ Speaking Skill in English Immersion School

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Fadil ◽  
Sumardi Sumardi ◽  
Ngadiso Ngadiso
Keyword(s):  
English Teachers ◽  
Program Improvement ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
English Immersion ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Comparative Results ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Speaking Skills

This research aims to describe: (1) students' English speaking skill in English immersion school; (2) students’ strengths and weaknesses in speaking skill in English immersion school; (3) factors affecting students' speaking skill in English immersion school. The research was designed as a case study, conducted at a school applying English immersion in Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia in Academic Year 2017-2018. The research used purposive sampling. Data were collecated by interview, questionnairre, observation, and document analysis. The informants were grade 2 students, English teachers, and the school founder. The analysis found that: (1) on the scale of 1-5 (1=very bad, 2=bad, 3=fair, 4=good, 5=very good), students’ English speaking skills were at levels of very good (2.22%), good (6.67%), fair (37.78%), bad (44.44%), and very bad (8.89%); (2) students’ strengths in English speaking skills were related to vocabulary with average score of 2.7, and the weaknesses dealt with fluency with average score of 2.25; (3) factors that were assumed to affect students’ English speaking skills were environment, local accent, vocabulary mastery, English use, preference, and habits. It is recommended that all parties involved in the English immersion program evaluate the running of the program and the content of the program to provide learning outputs through English immersion. Commitment to using English should be strengthened, especially in English Week program. Improvement on English teachers’ is needed by involving them in trainings. Finally, similar research at non-English immersion school is necessary to ensure the comparative results gained from both types of school.

Grammatical Competence within L2 Communication: Language Production, Monitor Hypothesis, and Focus on Forms Instruction

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Moh. Rofid Fikroni
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Language Production ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Focus On Form ◽  
Grammatical Competence ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Focus On Forms ◽  
Learning Language

Bearing in mind that the learners’ speaking skill had become the main goal in learning language, grammatical competence is believed to have a big role within foreign language learners’ language production, especially in spoken form. Moreover, the learners’ grammatical competence is also closely related to the Monitor Hypothesis proposed by Krashen (1982) in which it says that the acquired system will function as monitor or editor to the language production. The students’ monitor performance will vary based on how they make use of their acquired system. They may use it optimally (monitor optimal user), overly (monitor over-user), or they may not use it at all (monitor under-user). Therefore, learners’ grammatical competence has its own role, which is very crucial, within learners’ language production, which is not only to produce the language, but also to monitor the language production itself. Because of this reason, focus on form instruction will give a great impact for students’ grammatical competence within their communicative competence. This paper aims to present ideas about the how crucial the role grammatical competence within learners’ L2 communication.

Improving Communicative Competence Levels of Pre-Service Teachers Through Spoken-Based Reflection Instruction

2021 ◽  
pp. 002205742110445
Author(s):  
Chinaza Solomon Ironsi
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
English As Foreign Language ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Listening And Speaking ◽  
Speaking Skills

This study investigated the use of spoken-reflection instruction to improve the communicative competence level of English as Foreign Language learners in a second language acquisition classroom. A listening and speaking test was administered before and after the study to determine the participants’ level of speaking competence. A quantitative research design was adopted for the study. A 3-credit unit language course was designed and implemented for the study. The course was built on the core principles of reflective practice. Participants were taught using the normal language teaching method and spoken-based reflection instruction. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 65 English as Foreign Language learners who willingly participated in the study. At the end of the course, a questionnaire was used to obtain information from the participants about their perceptions of using spoken-based reflection instruction to improve their speaking skills. In addition, participants were administered a Reflection-Listening, and Speaking Skills Test before and after each experimental phase to determine whether their listening and speaking skills had improved. Most learners found the use of spoken reflections to be a fun way to learn. However, they expressed anxiety about doing teacher-student reflection because they felt intimidated by the presence of their language teacher, although sending recordings of their reflections to their teachers was more convenient than interacting with them on a one-to-one basis.

scholarly journals [The Effect of Using The Thinking out Loud Strategy to Improve Speaking Skills I Have Arabic Language Learners in Malaysia] Athar istikhdam al-tafkir bi sawt ‘al fi tahsin maharat al-tahaddath lada muta‘allimi al-Lughah al-‘Arabiyyah fi Malizyya

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-93
Author(s):  
Siti Salwa Mohd Noor
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Traditional Method ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Thinking Aloud ◽  
Speaking Test ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Speaking Skills ◽  
Thinking Out Loud

This study aimed to identify the effect of using thinking aloud strategy to improve speaking skill among learners of Arabic language in Malaysia. To achieve the objectives of the study, several Arabic language learners from University Sultan Zainal Abidin (UniSZA) in Malaysia have been chosen to participate in this study. The study sample consists of (30) students, they are then divided into two groups; the first experimental group consists of (15) students studied the Arabic language using the thinking aloud strategy, and the control group consists of (15) students studied using traditional method of teaching. A test has been used in this study; the test speaking skills (pre and post). Results of the study indicate significant differences at (α=0.05) due to the instruction strategy used in favour of those taught through thinking aloud strategy in the speaking test.   Keywords: Thinking Aloud Strategy, Speaking Skills, Arabic Learners.   تركز هذه الدّراسة على معرفة أثر استخدام استراتيجية التفكير بصوت عال في تحسين مهارات التحدث لدى متعلمي اللغة العربية في ماليزيا. ولتحقيق أهداف الدّراسة اختارت الباحثة متعلمي اللغة العربية في جامعة السلطان زين العابدين في ماليزيا ليكونوا ميدانًا لتجربة الدّراسة. وقد تكونت عينة الدّراسة من (30) طالبًا وطالبة، موزعين على مجموعتين؛ تكونت المجموعة الأولى من (15) طالبًا وطالبة درسوا مادة اللغة العربية باستخدام استراتيجية التفكير بصوت عال، وتكونت المجموعة الضابطة من (15) طالبًا وطالبة درسوا المادة بالطريقة الاعتيادية. واستخدمت الدّراسة اختبار مهارات التحدث (القبلي والبعدي). وقد أسفرت النتائج عن وجود فروق ذات دلالة إحصائية عند مستوى (α=0.05) لصالح المجموعة التجريبية التي استخدمت استراتيجية التفكير بصوت عال في اختبار مهارات التحدث.   كلمات مفتاحية: استرتيجية التفكير بصوت عال، مهارات التحدث، متعلمو اللغة العربية

scholarly journals A guide to use flipped classroom strategy to develop speaking skill for Arabic language learners for non-native speakers the high level : دليل إرشادي لاستخدام استراتيجية الفصل المقلوب لتنمية مهارة التحدث عند متعلمات اللغة العربية للناطقين بغيرها للمستوى المتقدم

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (40) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wafaa Hafez Alayaidi, Bayan Nair Alsubhi
Keyword(s):  
Language Learners ◽  
Flipped Classroom ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Speaking Skills

The aim of the current research is to prepare a guide to develop speaking skills for Arabic language learners of non-native speakers with using a flipped classroom strategy, where it included an introduction and the goal of that guide, and profile of the strategy and implementation steps, and also included three of the speaking skills that necessary to teach Arabic language to non-native speakers it is a skill of fluency - and the skill of varying the tone of the voice – and the skill of body language, each skill has its own performance indicator, and the researcher has used the descriptive method, and to achieve this objective the researcher used questionnaire tool for the guide to make sure it is usable, and the sample amounted to (7) specialists in teaching Arabic language and teaching Arabic language to non-native speakers, then the opinions of the arbitrators were statistically treated using percentages and all of them agreed on the validity of that guide with proposed amendments .

scholarly journals The Significant Connection between Communicative Competence and Cognitive Ability in Speaking English of English Debating Team

Humaniora ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Prima Dona Hapsari ◽  
F.A. Wisnu Wirawan
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Ability ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Speaking Skills

The purposes of the research were to find out whether the communicative competence in English speaking skills had a significant relationship with students' cognitive abilities was English speaking skill the most important achievement. How cognitive abilities and communicative competencies in English speaking skills were managed for the primary purposes of the English debating team. This research combined both qualitative and quantitative research. It used a descriptive method by distributing questionnaire, doing a survey, using observation, and doing an in-depth interview as the methods to collect data. The informants were twelve students who participated in the national teams of English Debating Championship of Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta from 2013-2017. The results of this research reveal that there is a significant connection between communicative competence and cognitive ability in which cognitive ability has an important impact on thinking, critical analysis, and creativity. Furthermore, cognitive ability gives a direct influence on communicative competence in speaking English. This communicative competence is reflected in the ability to produce critical-intellectual andcommunicative-factual sentences in doing the analysis and giving the argumentation.

The progressive form and its functions in spoken learner English

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-194
Author(s):  
Lea Meriläinen
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Home Country ◽  
International Database ◽  
Spoken English ◽  
Foreign Language Learners ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Progressive Form ◽  
Influential Variable

Abstract Present-day English manifests ongoing changes in the frequency and semantic range of the progressive form, which presents a challenge for foreign language learners. This study examines the frequencies and semantic functions of the progressive in the Louvain International Database of Spoken English Interlanguage with the aim of finding out to what extent learners are adopting the ongoing changes. This study analyses the effects of an exposure-rich learning environment by comparing learners from countries where English is used in varying degrees outside formal educational contexts and by examining intra-corpus variation between learners who have vs. have not spent time in English-speaking countries. The results reveal that exposure to English in the home country explains some of the variation in the progressive frequencies, but most of all it shows in the extent to which the learners have adopted its new semantic uses. By contrast, stay in English-speaking countries was not found to be an influential variable for all learner groups.

scholarly journals The Implementation of Technology-Based Media in Improving English Speaking Skill of Hospitality Students in Mataram Tourism College

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Sri Wahyuningsih ◽  
Ida Nyoman Tri Darma Putra
Keyword(s):  
Study Program ◽  
Hospitality Students ◽  
Rosetta Stone ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Youtube Videos ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Speaking Skills

This research aims to find out the effectiveness of the application of technology-based teaching media to improve the speaking skills of the Hospitality Study Program Students of STP Mataram. In this study, several media that utilize computers and the internet will be used in learning speaking. The use of the application Rosetta Stone, Duolingo, and YouTube videos integrated with the google classroom are used as learning media for students' speaking learning of the hospitality study program students. In this study, 30 students are used as the experimental group and 30 students as a controlled group. The results of this study indicated that the value of t-test > t table (3.462> 2.676), which means that there is a significant difference in English speaking skills using technology-based learning media. In conclusion, the use of technology-based learning media is effective in enhancing students’ speaking skill.

scholarly journals Exploring the Impact of VAK Learning Style on Teenager Level Language Learners in Indonesia

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 807
Author(s):  
Rina Asrini Bakri ◽  
M. Asfah Rahman ◽  
Baso Jabu ◽  
Jassruddin Jassruddin
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Learning Capability ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Before And After ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Speaking Skills

This study aims at finding out whether Visual Auditory Kinesthetic (VAK) learning styles improve the It presents pre experimental design  to see the impact of  VAK learning style with one group pre-tested and post-tested, employing oral testing. The target group of this study was teenager level language learners at a school in Makassar Indonesia in the 2015/2016 academic year. Twenty nine students with average speaking ability participated in this study. A purposive sampling technique was used to recruit participants.  The data was collected through an oral proficiency. The results of the data analysis indicated that there was a significant difference in the students’ English speaking skills before and after being trained using the VAK learning style. Results indicated that post-test was greater than pre-test in accuracy, fluency, comprehensibility. Based on the result of analysis can be concluded that the adoption of the VAK learning style can improve the English speaking skills and the methodology can be used as a preliminary strategy to assess students’ learning capability.

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF USING BLENDED LEARNING MODEL ON ENHANCING STUDENTS' SPEAKING SKILL IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 92
Author(s):  
Irma Dewi Isda ◽  
Purwati Purwati ◽  
Imran Imran
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
The Media ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Mean ◽  
English Students ◽  
Speaking Skills

This study aimed at investigating the effect of blended learning on the English-students’ speaking skills at SMAN 2 Patra Nusa Aceh Tamiang. Also, this study investigated students’ level differences of English-speaking skills of SMA Patra Nusa students. Twenty-five students of the eleventh-grade class were involved in this study. This study used a quasi-experimental with pre-experimental design. The instruments used in this study were observation and test (pretest and posttest). The results of data analysis showed that sig. 2-tailed = 0.000 < α (0.05), it means reject H0, accepted Ha. Finding obtained of pretest 77,04 and posttest 88,95. In conclusion, the mean pretest and posttest scores differ significantly. In other words, blended learning positively affects students speaking skills used in the media google classroom at SMA N 2 Patranusa.

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