WhatsApp Grouping Class for Increasing Students’ English Ability

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200406.006How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English ability, learning media, Information and Communication Technology, WhatsApp application

Abstract

This paper discusses the usage of WhatsApp grouping class for increasing students’ English ability. This study uses descriptive qualitative research methods, with primary data in the form of semi structured online interviews, participatory observation, documentation and test result. Purposive sampling technique used to choose Informants with total 177 active members of the WhatsApp group from 8 classes. The results pretest and posttest show student’s achievement increase. This achievement as evidence that WhatsApp group can be as tool or media for supporting English learning outside class. The interview also showed the majority of informants stated that existence of WhatsApp Group is useful to increase students’ English ability including listening, writing, reading and speaking competencies with a series of drilling activities and interactions in groups, students are proven to be more active in English, improve their ability to read, listen, write and improve vocabulary.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dewi Surani
AU  - AR Chaerudin
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/04/09
TI  - WhatsApp Grouping Class for Increasing Students’ English Ability
BT  - Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 25
EP  - 28
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200406.006
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200406.006
ID  - Surani2020
ER  -