Using Skype as a Technology Tool to Increase Students’ Motivation in Speaking at Vocational High School in Rengat

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210914.045How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Speaking skill, Skype

Abstract

This research happens to find the impact of Skype in increasing the students’ ability in speaking English at Vocational high school in Rengat. This research happens because there is no chance for students to use English for oral communication during a real environment, where within the environment people do not use English to communicate. This research is to draw the eye of the teachers about the advantage of Skype in increasing motivation to use English in speaking. The purpose of this research is to give the recommendations for students, teachers, and educationists so as to extend the processes of teaching and learning spoken English. Additionally, it attempts to describe the solution to learn English in speaking skills through technology. The research’s instrument was an observation as an experiment of teaching English speaking through Skype. The observation divide into pre-activity and post-activity, was given to determine the impact of using Skype to extend student motivation in speaking. A post-activity was given after 6 weeks’ experiment to the same students with the same activity as in pre-activity. The result of this research showed that Skype features gave a good impact on students’ motivation in speaking. And it also one of the solution to the teacher who want to extend students’ motivation in speaking English should allow Skype in the process of learning. Finally, it found that Skype encompasses an amazing tool for Increasing Students’ motivation in Speaking at Vocational high school in Rengat.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

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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AU  - Dina Elfipama Gustin
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TI  - Using Skype as a Technology Tool to Increase Students’ Motivation in Speaking at Vocational High School in Rengat
BT  - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT-8 2020)
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