IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING
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ABILITY THROUGH YAHOO MESSENGER
AT UNIVERSITY OF IQRA BURU
Saidna Zulfiqar Bin Tahir
10B01033
STATE UNIVERSITY OF MAKASSAR
2011
CONTENT
CHAPTER I
1. Background 2. Problem Statement
3. Objective 4.Significance 5. Scope
CHAPTER II
1. Previous Related Findings 2. Concepts of Speaking
3. Yahoo Messenger 4. Interest
5. Resume
6. Conceptual Framework
7. Hypotheses
CHAPTER III
1. Research Design 2. Research Variable 3. Population
and Sample 4. Research Instrument 5. Procedure of
Collecting Data 6. Technique of Data Analysis
BACKGROUND
Tool of Communication
English has became a compulsory
subject (SD-4th, SMP, SMU)
Many students can not
communicate in English well
Decreasing of interest in
joining speaking class
Lack of Opportunity
to practice
ICT
CALL &
CMC
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PROBLEM STATEMENT
1
• Does the application of Yahoo Messenger
improve the students’ speaking ability at
English and Literature Department of
University of Iqra Buru (UNIQBU)?
2
• Are the students of English and Literature
Department at University of Iqra Buru
(UNIQBU) interested in joining the
speaking class through Yahoo Messenger?
OBJECTIVE OF THE RESEARCH
To find out:
Whether or not
the use of Yahoo
Messenger
improve the
students’
speaking ability.
Whether or not
the use of Yahoo
Messenger
increase the
students’ interest
in joining the
speaking class.
SCOPE OF THE RESEARCH
By Discipline
• is under the study of applied linguistics. It is
specified on the use of Yahoo Messenger chat as
a medium in improving students’ speaking ability
to the second semester students of English and
Literature Department at University of Iqra Buru
Ambon in academic year 2011/2012.
By Content
• this research will emphasize on speaking skills,
they are, accuracy, fluency, and comprehensibility,
also the students’ interest.
By Activity
• the students are taught to use Yahoo Messenger
and make a dialogue in pair before they conduct
voice chat with native or non native speakers.
SIGNIFICANCES OF THE RESEARCH
Theoretically
• This study will hopefully stimulate the teachers to
be creative to develop and explore interesting
media in teaching speaking.
• The result of this study is expected to be used by
further researcher as information.
• The result of this research hopefully will gives
useful and helpful information for curriculum
development.
Practically
• it can be used as a model to improve students’
speaking ability, and it may guide, help and
encourage them to express their ideas, opinion,
and thought oral presentation, and also to interest
them to communicate in English.
PREVIOUS RELATED FINDINGS
1
• Syaukani (2010) did a research with a title “Sistim penerjemah inggrisindonesia pada aplikasi chatting berbasis web menggunakan
pendekatan aturan”
2
• Israini (2010) conducted a research on “3D chat rooms: creating an online
virtual classroom for EFL teaching and learning activity” reported that online
virtual classroom using Club Cooee could bring students in a different
atmosphere with 3D environment and they will be able to communicate easily
with other people from all over the world
3
4
• Xiao (2007) conducted a research on title “An Empirical Study of Using Internetbased Desktop Videoconferencing in an EFL setting” and the research result
indicated that the use of Internet-based Desktop Videoconferencing revealed
the participants perceived great improvement in their language proficiency after
10 weeks of talking online with native speakers.
• Crolotte (2005) conducted a research on a title “Improving L2 oral
proficiency through on-line chatting” by using one-group pre test and
post test design through MSN messenger.
SOME PERTINENT IDEAS
 Speaking is the ability to use of language in ordinary way of speech.
 Accuracy is the quality of being accurate, exactness, or correctness in
pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar
 Fluency is the ability to speak with others in an easy smooth manner
 Comprehensibility is the process of understanding of the utterances sent by
the speaker done by the listener.
 Teaching speaking refers to the active or productive spoken activities in the
classroom.
 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is defined as a range of
technological tools and resources used to communicate.
 Yahoo Messenger is a free chat program provided by Yahoo Inc which is
widely used and capable for synchronous communication between two or
more Internet users.
 Interest is readiness or desire to give attention to, be concern with, or learn
about some thing.
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
TEACHING SPEAKING
YAHOO MESSENGER
VOICE CHAT
INTEREST
SPEAKING ABILITY
ACCURACY
FLUENCY
COMPREHENSIB
ILITY
HYPOTHESES
H0: The use of Yahoo
Messenger can not
improve the students’
speaking ability;
H1: The use of Yahoo
Messenger can
improve the students’
speaking ability.
RESEARCH DESIGN
This research applied Time-Series Design. It is part of a
Quasi-experimental design.
O1
O2
O3
O4
X
O5
O6
O7
(Gay, 2006: 259)
The figure shows that before conducting the
treatment, a group will be given pretests repeatedly
until pretests score are stable; than the group is
exposed to a treatment and after treatment
implementation, repeatedly post-tested.
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VARIABLES
Variable
Dependent
The students’
speaking ability
Independent
Students’ interest
The use of Yahoo
Messenger voice chat
in teaching speaking
POPULATION AND SAMPEL
Population
Sample
• All of the Second semester
students of English and
Literature
Department
at
University of Iqra Buru Ambon
in academic years 2011-2012.
• Overall, the number of the
students in second semester
of English and Literature
Program as many as 20
students with one class.
• Since the population was
absolutely small in number or
the total number of sample is
20 students with one class,
then all of them will be
involved as the samples of
this research. This sampling
technique by Sugiyono (2010)
was
called
by
Census
Sampling Technique
RESEARCH INSTRUMENT
Pretest
Speaking Test
PostTest
Instrument
Questionnaire
Interest
PROCEDURE OF COLLECTING DATA
• The group will be
given
pretest
repeatedly (4x) to see
their
scores
consistence or stable.
• The pretest runs for 3
hours and 20 minutes
twice in a week.
• The data will be rated
by
the
speaking
lecturer and the dean
of
Language
and
Literature Faculty of
UNIQBU
PRETEST
TREATMENT
• The treatment will be
conducted
in
4
meetings
• each meeting run in
90 minutes divided
into 40 minutes of
theory and work in
pairs, and 50 minutes
of practicing on-line
voice chat
• The posttest will be
given to the students
after each treatments
series 1, 2, 3, and 4.
• The post test run in 3
hours 20 minutes.
• The data will be rated
by The Speaking
lecturer and the dean
of Language and
Literature Faculty of
UNIQBU
POSTTEST
TECHNIQUE OF DATA ANALYSIS
Speaking
Test
Pretest &
Posttest
-Accuracy
-Fluency
-Comprehensibility
Score
Classification
Criteria
86 – 100
A
Very Good to Excellent
71 – 85
B
Good
56 – 70
C
Average
41 – 55
D
Poor
≤ 40
E
Very Poor
Adapted from Panduan Penilaian di Universitas Iqra Buru, 2008
Score Criteria
of Speaking
(Heaton,
1988)
SC = Gain Score x 100
Max Score
In calculating the mean score,
standard deviation and t-test value
of the students speaking skills
(accuracy, fluency, and
comprehensibility) the researcher
will use SPSS program version
17.0.
TECHNIQUE OF DATA ANALYSIS
Questionnaire
Range
Interest
Category
81-100
Very high
61-80
High
41-60
Moderate
21-40
Low
0-20
Very low
Riduwan & Akdon (2009)
Likert Scale
Scoring &
Calculating
In calculating the t-test and
descriptive value and consulting ttable value to see the students’
interest toward teaching speaking
through Yahoo Messenger, the
researcher also used SPSS
program version 17.0.
IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING
ABILITY THROUGH YAHOO MESSENGER
AT UNIVERSITY OF IQRA BURU
By: Saidna Zulfikar bin Tahir
State University Of Makassar 2011
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