Mobile Assisted Language Learning: Platfoms To Support Students Teacher Improving Reading Skill

This study was investigating the platforms on Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL) that mostly used by students teachers on first and second year to improve their reading skill. Qualitative research design which used questionnaire and interview was employed to gain and analyze the data. The result showed that 79.3% students benefited various platforms, while the rest never used any platforms to support improving their reading skill. The top-five platforms were; (1) Wattpad, (2) Social Media, (3) Duolingo, (4) U-Dictionary, and (5) Quora. Students favored those platforms due to its popularity, attractiveness, efficiency, and benefit. The up-to-date and popular platform such as various social media and Quora were used to improve reading skill by connecting them to communicate to English native. Attractive platform such as Wattpad, where they could read countless stories was demanded to please their soul of readers. The efficient ones, Duolingo and U-Dictionary were chosen by them who prefer to learn in organized way. Fortunately, all of those platforms offered advantages for students such as improving their vocabulary acquisition, grammar competence, reading speed, and reading comprehension as well.

Relationship between EFL young learners’ multiple intelligences and English Achievement in Bilingual School

This research set out with the aim of assessing whether EFL young learners’ multiple intelligence in bilingual school in Intensive Cambridge Program (ICP) has influence on their English proficiency as the important determining factors. The total number of participant was 76 students which consist of 38 male and 38 female students of 2rd, and 5th grade of bilingual primary school. The instrument used to elicit information for this study is multiple intelligences survey for kid by Laura Candler and Cambridge Progress Test (CPT). The result shows that there is no significant relationship between EFL young learners’ multiple intelligences and English proficiency. To find the predictor of type of multiple intelligences which have strength to effect toward English achievement also showed no significant since the probability was small. It can be caused that in bilingual classroom since English is used not only as a subject but also as classroom instruction and language in the text book for science, mathematics and English itself. So student’s’ English proficiency had been influenced not only by how teacher conduct the class based on multiple intelligences, but by other input outside English subject.

Content-based instruction in the flipped classroom to enhance EFL learners’ intercultural communicative competence

The use of educational technology has given rise to the flipped classroom in providing learners with opportunities for active learning and engaging with material inside and outside class. Many previous studies have reported students’ satisfaction in using the flipped classroom for medical, math, and English courses; however, research on using flipped classroom to enhance learners’ intercultural communicative competence (ICC) in the EFL classroom remains insufficient. Therefore, this paper studies a one-semester project in which learners developed their ICC skills through content-based instruction (CBI) in a flipped classroom setting. Twenty-six students in the English department of a private university in Indonesia participated in this study. Using qualitative data analysis, the results show that CBI and flipped classroom improved the participants’ ICC significantly. These results could be valuable for those who wish to conduct similar research.

The Use of Pictures as Media to Improve Students’ Reading Comprehension

Reading is an important skill for developing second language competence. The success of a learning a second language is by taking the power of reading. In the classroom, we will face many techniques applied to the students under the expectation that they are able to or easy to understand the lesson. For a teacher, it is necessary to find new teaching media to overcome the problems and not to forget to motivate the students. In this paper, the writer wants to know the effect of picture as a media to improve students’ reading comprehension. The purpose of this research is to find out whether the use of pictures can improve students’ reading comprehension or not. To make the students easily understand about the reading material, teacher needs to have a teaching media. Then, the writer chooses visual media that is picture to increase students’ reading mastery. Pictures are considered as the best media in teaching reading because using picture as a teaching media are able to give the students a clear illustration regarding the correlated topics in texts, tell the students what is going on, and what are the persons in the text are talking about. Nowadays, the pictures and the technologies are becoming more and more advanced. In this decade, we can already materialize a more advanced picture that added by motion and sounds by using simple applications provided in home personal computer. Moreover, the students now are quite used and interested to apply any high tech media. Based on the result of discussion, it can be concluded that pictures are theoretically can be a good media to help the students enhancing their reading comprehension. Therefore in this view, it is justifiable to hypothetically conclude that using pictures for strengthening students’ visual sense can help them to understand a text.

The Google Classroom for Learning Writing : Students’ Initial Perceptions

This study is aimed to explore student’s initial perceptions of the application of Google Classroom to learning writing at seventh grade students. The design of this study is a survey. The researcher used a questionnaire adapted from the theoretical foundation of UTAUT2 (Unified Theory of Acceptance of Technology) to collect the data. Before conducting the research, the researcher did a preliminary study to choose the subject of the study and select 54 students from different classes that is VII-A and VII-B. The data gathered from an online questionnaire by using Google Form. The result of this study with quantitative data showed that Seventh Grade Students had a good (high) perception toward all statements of the questionnaire. Most of the student’s initial perceptions of Google Classroom application for learning writing in this study is an indicator of Performance Expectancy. It shows that (1) students find Google Classroom useful for learning English online especially writing. (2) students find Google Classroom useful which allows them to do assignment quickly. (3) using Google Classroom, students will increase their chance of learning English online for writing. The researcher recommends that this research offers several implications for the adaptation of Google Classroom in learning writing. The students’ initial perception, as evidence of students’ behavioural intentions in learning writing through learning platform and it gives beliefs to teachers in applying learning innovations refers to the usefulness of the learning platform as well as the most influential factors during implementation.

The Students' Perceptions of Using Zoom Application on Mobile Phone in Improving Speaking Skills During Online Learning at Ban Loeiwangsai School, Loei Province, Thailand.

This study focused on the impact of using the Zoom application on mobile phones by examining students' perceptions of speaking skills and their attitude during online learning. The students have 4 months of experience using the Zoom application. This research method used a survey design and collects data by giving 12 questionnaire items through Google form to students. The participants are elementary school students with 3 categories, namely grade 4, grade 5 and grade 6 at Ban Loeiwangsai school, Thailand. The findings of this study are that the strategic design of online learning on the use of the Zoom application has an impact on students performance in independent learning and managing time. This also has an impact on the ability and knowledge of students learning English especially in the speaking skill. Their academics are particularly affected by the use of the Zoom application during online learning.

The Perception of Using Technology Canva Application as a Media for English Teacher Creating Media Virtual Teaching and English Learning in Loei Thailand

Online Learning requires teachers to think creatively and innovatively to attract students. Learning media becomes the main factor in helping teachers make it happen. This study aims to find out the perception of English teachers in the use of canva application as a virtual learning media creation in Loei Thailand.This research applies mixed method design that starts with collecting quantitative data. After analyzing quantitative data, qualitative data is then collected and analyzed. 20 teachers were asked to fill out a questionnaire to find out their perspective on the use of Canva. This research has proven that canva application can be used to create learning media. The result in this research was the function and benefit of canva divided into two, namely as sumplemen and subtitusi. The supplement function of canva is (1) Canva fasilitated teacher to make learning media, (2) Canva Application Improve online teaching process. The substitution function of canva is (1) Canva Application Improves learning media effectively, (2) Learning media of Canva is easy to distribute to students (3) Canva application can help the technology requirement. That is, the function of Canva obtained in this study.

MOTIVATIONAL STRATEGIES IN TEACHING SPEAKING SKILL

Motivation plays an important role in learning process, but it is generally known as the main problem in English as foreign language learning process. Most of the researches and studies pay high attention to this problem as it seems to be the trickiest challenges faced by teachers. Moreover in teaching speaking, the teacher should have high sensitivity to identify whether the students really have low motivation in oral production or it is caused by other factors, because low of motivation makes the students unable to achieve the goal of language learning. This paper discusses the motivational strategies in teaching speaking skill to the students who has low motivation also provide recommendation for English teacher to have successful implementation regarding to solve student’ low motivation in speaking skill.

Mobile-Assisted Language Learning Based Using Scientific Approach to Improve Students Vocabulary

One of the hard sections of learning the target language for English language learners is vocabulary. Vocabulary plays a significant part in language learning because without vocabulary the students cannot master 4 skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing). So many problems were found in learning vocabulary which influence students’ vocabularies mastery and to solve it the researcher addresses the alternative strategy which can be used for teaching learning vocabulary. Based on previous studiess technology gave the positive effect on learning English. Thus, making different with the previous studies, the researcher applied MALL based using scientific Approach to teaching vocabulary. The objective of the study is to find out the significant effect of MALL based using scientific Approach to improve students’ vocabulary. The design of this study was quasi experiment design. The researcher chose eight grade students of SMPN 4 Babat which totally consisted of 48 students. The researcher chose the sample of the study through population sampling. The sample was divided 24 students of VIII-A as experiment group and 24 students of VIII-B as control group. The data was collected by using pre-test and post-test about active and passive vocabulary. After getting the data, the researcher analyzed the data using SPSS 16.00 and independent Sample T-test. The research finding showed that there was significant difference between experimental group and control group. It has been proven by the result of sig. (2-Tiled) is .002. the sig (2-Tiled) is lower 0.05 (0.001 < 0.05). So, null hypothesis (Ho) can be rejected. It means that MALL based using scientific approach significantly affects students vocabulary. The researcher concluded that MALL based using scientific approach give positive effect on students’ vocabulary ability. The researcher suggests the English teacher to implement MALL based using scientific approach as an alternative strategy in teaching learning process. For the next researcher, they can implement MALL for higher level students’ using other media.