scholarly journals Developing Speaking Skill Through Debating: Undergraduate EFL Students’ Perception

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syamdianita ◽  
Amedea Cathriona Maharia
Keyword(s):  
Efl Students ◽  
Speaking Skill

scholarly journals Self-Assessment in Exploring EFL Students’ Speaking Skill

AL-TA LIM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-214
Author(s):  
Alek Alek ◽  
Abdul Gafur Marzuki ◽  
Muhammad Farkhan ◽  
Rahma Deni
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Use Of Self ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
Oral Performance ◽  
School Students ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Speaking Skill

Self-assessment is one of alternative ways to evaluate students’ speaking talent in English. Through this evaluation, students are allowed to discover, know, and develop their speaking skill. Nonetheless, this sort of project was probably not common in Indonesia. Thus, this study was aimed to know students’ perception of using self-assessment for assessing their oral performance at Link and Match vocational high school. The information of this study was gathered by means of questionnaire which consists of 5 questions about the use of self-assessment. In this qualitative study, the data had been analyzed descriptively. There have been 30 vocational high school students who stand in Multimedia Major as the participant of this study. The results of this study indicated that most of the students thought that self-assessment very helpful for them because it allowed them to know their functionality and develop it to achieve the course goal specifically the speaking course objective. However, some students though that self-assessment was considerably useful since the teacher not often use this assignment and the students not take pleasure in whereas attempting to assess themselves. Self-assessment is very useful in exploring and assessing students speaking skill.

scholarly journals Technology Integration to English Speaking for Beginner Classroom Through Vlogs: A Bridge of EFL Students’ Hesitancy to Speak

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syifa’ Khuriyatuz Zahro .
Keyword(s):  
Technology Integration ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
Generation Z ◽  
Proficiency Level ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking

The current advancement of video-blogs (vlogs) in YouTube channel among students of generation z has challenged teachers to make use of its potential for students’ speaking enhancement. The present research aimed at elaborating the implementation of educational vlogs as well as lecturers’ and students’ perceptions in response to the use and the creation of educational vlogs to enhance their speaking proficiency and reduce their speaking hesitancy. The research piloted to university students who attended speaking for beginner course in Lamongan. This is mixed-method research employed 27 students who were purposefully selected as the sample based on their speaking proficiency level (good, average and less than average). The instruments obtained in data collection were notes of observation, students speaking scores, questionnaires, and interview guidance that were analyzed descriptively. The results of the study indicated that integrating vlogs to speaking classroom has positive feedback from both lecturers and students. Therefore, it is suggested to make use of the vlogs toward another classroom in different circumstances and skills.   Keywords: Technology integration, vlogs, speaking for beginner, speaking skill

scholarly journals EXPLORING THE AUTHENTIC MATERIAL TO IMPROVE THE ACADEMIC LITERACY IN EFL CLASSROOM

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Freddy Nicholas ◽  
Tony Seimon
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Classroom Practice ◽  
Academic Literacy ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Authentic Material ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Speaking Skill

AbstractProficiency in English academic speaking is considered to be important in EFL student. And the authentic material has been used to improve the students’ speaking skill. This study aimed to discuss the perception of EFL students on the importance of the academic speaking in their current study and the use of authentic materials in their classroom. The study investigates the students’ needs which are emerging in academic speaking during the classroom practice for gaining the perceptive and thoughtful understanding for the forthcoming course’s needs. The data for the current study has been collected by using the five scaled questionnaire of the needs analysis that was distributed among the fifty EFL undergraduate students and focus interview groups which involved fourty participants were also used to collect the data. Based on the findings of the study, it is suggested that the resources for authentic materials are considered needed.Key words: English as a Foreign Language (EFL), Authentic Material, Academic Speaking Skill

scholarly journals Photovoice: Exploring the Role of Teacher’s Question for University Students’ Fluency in Speaking Class

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Nur Arifah Drajati
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
University Students ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Language Fluency ◽  
Teaching Process ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Speaking Skill

Abstract. Speaking skill is essential in language learning and teaching process because the goal of learning a foreign language is to be able to communicate using the target language. Fluency is one of the leading criteria that the students should accomplish in speaking skill. However, most of EFL students tend to be more nervous if they speak English, and this will impact their fluency. The objective of the research is to investigate how questioning gives an impact for students’ fluency in academic speaking class. The researchers used narrative inquiry to collect and process the data using Photovoice. The participants of this research were 12 university students. The finding shows that the use of questioning can develop students’ speaking fluency in academic speaking class. As the implication, teachers can give questions followed with feedback to enhance the students’ fluency. Keywords: fluency, speaking skill, questioning, photovoice.

scholarly journals COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES USED BY EFL STUDENTS IN IMPROVING SPEAKING SKILL

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-53
Author(s):  
Rahmi Aulia Nurdini
Keyword(s):  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Literal Translation ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
Linguistic Means

This study aimed to investigate communication strategies (CSs) used by EFL students in improving speaking English. Methods employed were questionnaire, observation, and interview. Findings showed that students have improvement in speaking when they used communication strategies (CSs). The strategies used by the students such as non-linguistic means, appeal for help, and fillers or hesitation device, message abandonment, non-linguistic means, literal translation, code switching, appeal for help, and fillers or hesitation device. The study suggests that EFL practitioners pay attention to communication strategies (CSs) aspect to obtain the optimum results of teaching-learning processes. 

scholarly journals Using Language Games to Enhance EFL Students’ Speaking Skill in Indonesia

AL-TA LIM ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 213-222
Author(s):  
Abdul Gafur Marzuki ◽  
Ana Kuliahana
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Language Games ◽  
Main Criterion ◽  
Classroom Performance ◽  
Plan Implementation ◽  
Speaking Test ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Classroom Action Research

This research aims at enhancing EFL students’ speaking skill through the use of language games. The research was designed in the form of Classroom Action Research. It was conducted in two cycles and six meetings. Each cycle consisted of plan, implementation, observation, and Reflection. The researchers employed an observation checklist, field notes, questionnaire, and test to collect the data. The main criterion of success of this research was that the students’ scores on the speaking test should achieve a score of 70, and it must be achieved by 75% of the total number of students. The second criterion was that the lecturer’s classroom performance should meet the “Success” category. The results of the first speaking test showed that from 24 students in the classroom, 15 students got scores of 70 or higher. It was equal to 62.5 %. In cycle 2, the total number of students who got scores of 70 or higher was 21. It was equal to 87.5 %. The result of this research indicated that the use of language games can develop the students’ speaking skills

scholarly journals YouTube Channel: An Alternative Social Media to Enhance EFL Students’ Speaking Skill

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ilyas ◽  
Miranti Eka Putri
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
English Language ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Study Program ◽  
First Semester ◽  
Learning Attitude ◽  
Purpose Of Education ◽  
Efl Students ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
To Receive

The aim of this study is to know wether there is or not significant effect of using YouTube channel to students’ speaking skill. The use of YouTube channel can make easier for students to receive lessons, motivate students in learning, so what is the purpose of education can be achieved well. YouTube encourages positive learning attitude if it is incorporated in classroom teaching to supplement language learning especially speaking. The design of this study is experimental research that was conducted at English language study program of Universitas Islam Riau. The sample consist of 48 students from the first semester. After applying YouTube channel in learning, the results of the study showed a significant improvement. Based on the data of SPSS, the value of sig. (2-tailed) was 0,000 which is not greater than the probability value of 0.05. (0.000 < 0.05). It can be concluded that Ho is rejected and H1 is accepted, means that there is significant effect of using YouTube channel towards students’ speaking skill.

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