scholarly journals Promoting Speaking Proficiency in Broadcasting Through YouTube Project: Perceptions of Undergraduate Students

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Wahyuningsih
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Speaking Skills

This article mainly investigated the perceptions of undergraduatestudents from the Department of Islamic Broadcasting Communication at StateIslamic Institute of Kudus to the use of YouTube as project-based learning tofoster speaking proficiency in broadcasting. The study was conducted asqualitative research and data were collected through the administration of a 15-item questionnaire to the students relating the perception of YouTube project inenhancing their speaking proficiency in broadcasting. The result revealed thatmajority of the students agreed that YouTube project can facilitate the use ofEnglish based on their positive attitudes towards its use and high percentages ofthe perceptions that it can foster speaking of the language. Furthermore,YouTube encourages them to be more confident when speaking English and alsohas the ability to support their appearance or performance when broadcasting. Itis, therefore, important for lecturers to design English speaking skills integratedinto course materials through the use of modern technology

scholarly journals THE USE OF VIDEO TO ENHANCE SPEAKING PROFICIENCY IN BROADCASTING : PERCEPTIONS OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sri Wahyuningsih
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
The State ◽  
State Institute ◽  
Islamic Studies ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
Item Questionnaire ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
English Speaking

This article aims at investigating the perceptions of undergraduate students from theIslamic Broadcasting Communication Department at the State Institute of Islamic Studies(IAIN) Kudus to the use of video in enhancing their speaking proficiency in broadcasting.This study belongs to a qualitative research. In order to gather data, the writer administereda 15- item questionnaire to the students. Further, an in-depth interview was conductedto get detail information related the perceptions of using video in speaking English andneeded strategies to encourage their career development in broadcasting. The findingsreveal that the majority of students in Islamic Broadcasting Communication Departmentat the State Institute of Islamic Studies (IAIN) Kudus agree that video facilitates them inbroadcasting using English. It can be shown by their positive attitudes towards using videoand high percentages of the perceptions that video can motivate them to speak English,video encourages them to be confident when speaking English, and video can enhancetheir appearance or performance when broadcasting using English. Besides, it is neededthe role of lecturers to design the English speaking skills that are integrated into the coursematerials using technology in millennial era.

scholarly journals Improving EFL Undergraduate Learners’ Speaking Skills Through Project-Based Learning Using Presentation

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 65
Author(s):  
Lawarn Sirisrimangkorn
Keyword(s):  
Language Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Business English ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Skill Improvement ◽  
Quantitative And Qualitative Methods ◽  
Speaking Skills

Project-based learning has been variously integrated into EFL instruction to promote learners’ language learning and skills. The objectives of this research study were to examine the effects of project-based learning using presentation on EFL undergraduate learners’ speaking skills. Furthermore, this study sought to explore learners’ opinions on the use of project-based learning using presentation. The participants of this study were 31 second-year undergraduate students who majored in Business English. The research instruments in this study included speaking tests, project-based learning instructions, questionnaires, and interviews. The obtained data were analyzed by quantitative and qualitative methods for the result interpretation. The findings of this study revealed that students’ speaking skills had significantly improved after the project-based learning implementation. Moreover, the students expressed positive opinions towards project-based learning using presentation as it was perceived to have helped improve their speaking skills. The findings from the interviews revealed that the project-based learning using presentation was positive for learners’ speaking skills according to their presentation tasks, scaffolding activities, and practice of integrative skills. A cooperative learning environment is perceived as useful for learners’ speaking skill improvement. However, time constraint posed a major challenge in the study. Further studies are recommended to encompass a community-based context for speaking skill improvement. Instructional implications derived from the findings include implementing project-based learning using presentation in order to provide learners with an authentic English speaking context and to promote the integrated skills.

scholarly journals Role Play Activities: An Innovative Approach to Teaching Speaking Skills in an ESL Classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
Nurhamimi Togimin ◽  
Haliza Jaafar
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Role Play ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Target Language ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Real Life Situation ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Esl Classroom ◽  
Speaking Skills

Encouraging students to speak during classroom activities is an effective strategy to improve their acquisition of the target language. Activities related to real life situation such as role play, debate and simulation provide substantial rehearsal and practice and they allow students to not just learn phrases, but also learn how to communicate in various circumstances. Recent studies have revealed that students who are exposed to learning using role play activities improve significantly in speaking competency. Hence, the aim of this study is to investigate how role play activities in an ESL classroom can be an innovative approach in improving students’ speaking skill. A total of nine undergraduate students from the Faculty of Computing in a public university in the Southern region of Malaysia were involved in this study. The main purpose for choosing the students as participants of the study was due to their low English proficiency based on their MUET results. The instruments used in this study were observation checklist and questionnaire. All the findings were tabulated and analysed qualitatively (observation checklist) as well as quantitatively (questionnaire). From the analysis carried out, it was evident that the students made positive improvement particularly in fluency, comprehension, context, and interactive communication. Besides that, the students felt that role play activities had brought positive effects on their English-speaking skills as obtained from the results of the questionnaire. Thus, it can be deduced that role play activities do have positive effects on students’ English-speaking skills.

scholarly journals Reticence is not a Virtue in Aviation: Improving English Speaking Proficiency of Future Aviation Specialists

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 498-515
Author(s):  
Liudmyla Herasymenko ◽  
Svitlana Muravska ◽  
Maryna Lomakina ◽  
Nadiia Martynenko ◽  
Iuliia Mazurenko
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
English Language ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
Information Gap ◽  
Grammatical Skills ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Speaking Skills

English language proficiency is a vital requirement for air-to-ground communication for aviation specialists. A special attention should be paid to developing speaking skills of future pilots, air traffic controllers and engineers. Our research has shown that future aviation specialists come across certain challenges in the process of communication in English: insufficient aviation knowledge to give an opinion, low motivation to speak, poor grammatical skills and insufficient knowledge of vocabulary items, uneven participation in discussions, and fear of making mistakes. To overcome these challenges some recommendations were formulated for teachers to follow. The problem-solving activities were chosen and designed to enhance students’ speaking skills. They include value-clarification tasks, discussions, role-plays, information-gap activities, describing pictures, and discussing videos. This research aims to define the impact of applying these problem-solving activities on developing students’ speaking skills. 120 second year students in aviation specialties took part in this experiment. They were divided into a control and an experimental group of equal numbers. In both groups, the teachers taught the same Aviation English content which corresponded to the syllabus. In addition, in the experimental group the teacher implemented the problem-solving activities, which contributed significantly to the development of future aviation specialists’ speaking skills.

scholarly journals The Influence of Using Social Media as a Learning Platform by Bilingual and Multilingual Learners on English Speaking Skills

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Porawe Poramathikul ◽  
Nakibah Arwedo ◽  
Innas Abdulhakim ◽  
Pitchayaporn Wattanaruwangkowit
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Average Score ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
Learning Platform ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
University Level ◽  
The University ◽  
Speaking Skills

This study aims to discover the influences of using social media on the English speaking skills. To fulfill this study’s goal, data was collected using questionnaires, self-assessment, and speaking tests. Participants of the study were 20 bilinguals and multilingual of any two or more languages that are currently studying English as a foreign language (EFL) at the university level in Thailand. The result from speaking proficiency self-assessment shows the perception of bilinguals and multilingual who perceived that they can speak English fluently than accurately. The average score of the self-assessment is 5.59 out of 9. The standard deviation (S.D.) of their score is 1.46. This score shows that the participants consider themselves as competent users of English according to the description from British Councils (2012). Only eight out of 20 or 40 percent of the participants think that they have reached the level of capable users of the English, while the other 60 percent of participants think that they have not reached that level. From this study, it has been found that bilingual and multilingual speakers often use social media for educational purposes.

scholarly journals Enhancing Students Speaking Skills Through Project-Based Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 113
Author(s):  
Sintya Mutiara We
Keyword(s):  
Private University ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Speak Up ◽  
Motivation And Confidence ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Speaking Skills

The mastery of English speaking skill is one problem for Indonesian learners so that it needs one particular treatment to overcome it. This study was aimed to investigate if Project-Based Learning (PjBL) was effective to improve speaking skills of the second year of non-English students in one private university in Semarang and how PjBL was able to influence their attitude to speaking. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used. Quasi-experimental research design was applied to 53 students. To collect data, instruments employed were speaking tests, observations, and interviews. The results showed that the experimental group had a better score compared to the control group. The previous mean score was 8.74, and the post mean score was 11.33. The range score of the experimental group and the control group was 3.70. Furthermore, Independent Sample T-test showed sig. value (2-tailed) of 0.00, which was lower than 0.05, indicating that there was statistically significant difference between the two groups. The results of the interviews also showed that the students gave positive attitudes towards the implementation of PjBL. Before the treatment the students had low motivation and confidence in speaking. After the 8 week-treatment, the finding showed that they felt enthusiastic and challenged during all the speaking projects. This method was successful to develop the students’ motivation and confidence to speak up in English.

scholarly journals SPEAKING CHALLENGES THAT ENCOUNTER 2ND AND 3RD YEAR EFL UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Feras Al-Esaifer Saleh A Al-Esaifer ◽  
Hisham Alshareef Mohammed A. Alshareef
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Foreign Language Teachers ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Common ◽  
Speaking Skills

This research investigated the common problems and difficulties that face 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students in developing their speaking skills. The qualitative approaches (interview and observation) were used as methods of collecting data of this study. Four classes were involved in the classroom observation, twenty students from this cohort and four teachers were interviewed. Some of the difficulties which were introduced in this study were related to the poor classroom conditions and methods that teachers employ in teaching speaking skills. Some other difficulties were related to pronunciation, including adding extra vowels and intonation and stress. Furthermore, there were other difficulties regarding the lack of vocabulary, which lead the students to avoid practicing their problems, have been provided in this study. The findings of this study are important as they represent the most influential factors which appear to be responsible for the problems of developing 2nd and 3rd year under- graduate students speaking skills. Recognition of the problems outlined in the first step of this study in order to supply appropriate solutions for overcoming these difficulties. In addition, these findings draw attention towards the importance of helping both the foreign language teachers and students to change their perspective about teaching and learning English speaking skills.

scholarly journals DEVELOPING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS: Barriers faced by the Bangladeshi EFL learners

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 118
Author(s):  
Md. Mohsin Mridha ◽  
Sheikh Md. Muniruzzaman
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Basic Skills ◽  
Data Collection Tool ◽  
Undergraduate Level ◽  
Efl Learners ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
Global Age ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Speaking Skills

This study aimed at investigating the prevailing barriers for developing English speaking skills faced by the undergraduate level students in Bangladesh. The attempt was to locate the importance of speaking proficiency in English as one of the basic skills of a language in this “English” era. In this global age, the use of English has been inevitable, and it is used in different phases of our life. But Bangladeshi EFL learners often fail to attain proper speaking proficiency for some reason. This nature of the study was quantitative, and the data collection tool was questionnaire. This paper is presenting the problems and plausible recommendations in order to develop speaking. The reasons behind the incompetency in speaking skills are many and some of which are the influence of mother tongue, lack of vocabulary, lack of practice, unfavorable environment, teachers’ non-cooperation, shyness, fear, and language ‘fossilization.’

scholarly journals Use of Charades in Enhancing Higher Institute Students’ Speaking Skills

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-38
Author(s):  
DALVINDER KAUR A/P KOLDIP SINGH ◽  
Azlina Abdul Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Positive Perception ◽  
Single Group ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Speaking Proficiency ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Speaking Skill ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Speaking Skills

English speaking skill is one of the most challenging skills that has to be taught by teachers, and there are many factors affecting students' low speaking proficiency. Hence, charades are implemented in this study. The purpose of this research is to study the improvement of English-speaking skills among college students through implementing Charades in the classroom. This study consists of two objectives. The first objective is to determine the effectiveness of charades in improving learners’ speaking skills, and the second objective is to investigate learners’ perception of charades. This study involves 18 students from Chenderoh Community College. Charades were implemented in their speaking lessons. This is single-group quasi-experimental research. Data was collected through pre and post-test and questionnaire. Speaking scores were analyzed through paired T-test. After the data analysis, there is a significant difference between pre and post-test. Students showed a positive perception of charades.

scholarly journals Non-English Majors’ Attitudes towards Using YouTube to Improve Speaking Skills

2021 ◽  
pp. 38-48
Author(s):  
Nguyen Dinh
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Affective Attitudes ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
English Majors ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
Speaking Skills

This study aimed to explore students’ attitudes towards using YouTube to improve speaking skills at the context of a Binh Duong based university. A total of one hundred and fifty students participated in the research. Both quantitative and qualitative data was obtained through two instruments, namely questionnaires and interview. For analysing the data collected, descriptive statistics and content analysis were employed. The results of the study revealed that non-English majors hade positive attitudes towards using YouTube to improve speaking skills. More interestingly, the findings revealed that they had affective attitudes towards the use of YouTube higher than the cognitive and behavioural attitudes. The study also made several suggestions for both teachers and students with the aim of contributing a small part to the teaching and learning of English speaking skills.

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