Speaking Competence Research Articles

Building English speaking competence of intending higher education institutions teachers

Building English speaking competence of intending higher education institutions teachers

Students’ Mastery of English Grammar towards Effective Writing and Speaking Competence

English language proficiency is one of the most pressing issues, particularly in the field of education. Speaking and writing are two of the most important macroskills to master, especially in today's increasingly connected world. The current study seeks to ascertain students' comprehension and mastery of English grammar and explores whether grammar explains the students' proficiency in speaking and writing in Grade 10 Junior High School. The respondents were chosen for the study using a simple random sampling design. Additionally, the researcher's questionnaire, with three qualified validators tested for validity and a pilot tested for reliability, produced a satisfactory Cronbach's alpha result and served as the basis for gathering the study's data. Findings show that students' competence in English grammar, writing, and speaking is satisfactory. The outcome demonstrates that mastery of English grammar accounts for developing an acceptable level of speaking and writing abilities. The study concluded that students' command of English grammar explains their writing and speaking abilities.

From Inspiration to Fluency: Investigating the Effects of TED Talks on Speaking Competence in Language Instruction

This article presents the findings of a quantitative study investigating the impact of integrating TED Talks media in language instruction on students' speaking skills. The study focused on assessing the effectiveness of utilizing TED Talks videos as a resource to enhance students' verbal expression and communication abilities. The analysis of pre-test and post-test scores revealed a significant improvement in students' speaking skills following the integration of TED Talks. By incorporating authentic and engaging content from TED Talks, students were exposed to a variety of topics, expert speakers, and real-life language use, leading to enhanced fluency, vocabulary, and pronunciation. These results underscore the potential of integrating TED Talks as an effective pedagogical tool for promoting students' speaking skills in language instruction. Language educators are encouraged to incorporate TED Talks into their teaching practices to create dynamic and interactive learning experiences that foster linguistic development and effective communication. The study contributes to the existing body of research on the use of multimedia resources in language education and offers practical insights for educators seeking innovative approaches to enhance students' speaking abilities.

Efl Learner's Perception on the Use of Mentimeter Platform in Enhancing Speaking Skills in Pohuwato

The education sector in particular of technology learning brings benefits in a number of ways. An up-to-date learning has become the norm for teaching and learning in digital era. Both teachers and students are given a challenge to fully support the success of the integrated learning. When presenting educational resources to their students, teachers need to employ a greater degree of innovation meanwhile students are urged to engage in frequent study on their own as independent and effective learners. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to ascertain the EFL learner’s perception on the use of Mentimeter platform and to figure out the advantages of using Mentimeter Platform in enhancing speaking skills performance. The qualitative descriptive approach has been chosen as the method of this study. The data were obtained from interview and questionnaire. The findings showed that there were some perceptions about using Mentimeter Platform in enhancing the EFL learners’ speaking skills. Mostly students in definitely thought that the implementation of Mentimeter platform could enhance their speaking competence and surprisingly it also greatly benefited to their advance speaking and translating abilities.

Pendampingan Penggunaan Media Audio Visual Assisted Text Untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Berbicara Pada Siswa Kelas Tambahan Mata Pelajaran Bahasa Inggris Di MA Bidayatul Hidayah Mojogeneng Mojokerto

Speaking competence in English learning become one of indicator that a learner has mastered the language. The using of proper media to beginner learner is necessary. The purpose of this Community Service is to build motivation and confidence of the English extra class’ students in MA Bidayatul Hidayah. The using of audiovisual assisted text is also followed by integrated activities such as listening, reading, pronouncing, and speaking which is expected that the students can get accustomed to English speech. Then the students’ competence in using English for communication can be improved.

Speaking Challenge, Does Pronunciation as the Attribute of Fluency?

Speaking skill is a difficult aspect for language students. In speaking, there are things that need to be considered such as pronunciation of vocabulary. However, students still have difficulty in articulating many words as the indicator of fluency. This case also brings many assumptions in vocabulary pronunciation. The variety of speaking difficulties faced by students of grade VIII in MTs S Ummi Lubuk Pakam was being the main aim. A qualitative descriptive method that presents findings and research results qualitatively was implemented. The voice recordings used as the data and the supporting finding was gotten from the observation result, then it was clarified through the interviews transcript. This analysis found that in speaking English accurately, students had not mastered the phonological rules and they did not know the various sounds or pronunciations. The evidence also proven that the stress, intonation and pitch become the big problems in English utterances. The low quality of pronunciation brings conclusion about students’ factors in low speaking competency.

Communicative Language Teaching for an Enhanced Speaking Competence of Grade 11 Students in Sta. Lucia National High School

This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of communicative language teaching, such as content-based and task-Based instruction, in enhancing the speaking competence of grade 11 students in terms of fluency, vocabulary, grammatical accuracy, and pronunciation. The researcher hopes that the problems encountered in speaking might be alleviated through the study's outcomes and further promotes the use of the approaches used in this study. The use of these approaches paved the way to enhance further speaking competence in fluency, vocabulary, grammatical accuracy, and pronunciation. This might open doors to those students who are hesitant to express their ideas in speaking not only in English subjects but also in other disciplines. Through the study's findings, the possible approaches in further promoting these approaches will be clear and hopefully effective. Meanwhile, the study's findings on enhancing the students' speaking competence using communicative language teaching resulted in significant differences in fluency and grammatical accuracy. Whereas in terms of vocabulary and pronunciation, no significant difference was found. The results revealed that in terms of speaking competence, students have improved. However, the results also show that vocabulary and pronunciation skills are the competence found to have found the least mastered by the students since they are still in the adjustment period from the pandemic. They needed to be given more exposure to the vocabulary and practiced their pronunciation skills.

THE DRILLING METHOD TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ PUBLIC SPEAKING AT TAHFIDZ TAKHASSUS DAARUL QUR’AN ISLAMIC BOARDING SCHOOL PALEMBANG

Indonesia is preparing to enter the era of Society 5.0 where all aspects of life are interconnected without space and time limitations. Students in Islamic boarding schools must also have the competence to communicate, to think critically, and to collaborate on projects. It is important for the younger generation to improve their public speaking competence so that they can express their critical and creative thoughts in front of others. This study is a descriptive qualitative study and the data are collected by observations. This study aims to describing how to train students’ public speaking skill through drilling method. The samples as well as subjects of this study were 28 students. Public speaking training was conducted for a month using the drilling method at the Tahfidz Takhasus Daarul Qur'an Islamic Boarding School Palembang. The drill method was carried out in seven steps namely association, objectives and core material delivery, motivation, practices, demonstration, evaluation, and program follow-up. The training was carried out by introducing the material through lectures and discussions, and was continued with the drilling method to train the students' rhetorical or speech competence in public. Students demonstrated public speaking in English, Arabic and Indonesian. The advice given to the training participants is to maximize training in public speaking, especially making speeches in various languages so that they can be used when engaging in society.Indonesia is preparing to enter the era of Society 5.0 where all aspects of life are interconnected without space and time limitations. Students in Islamic boarding schools must also have the competence to communicate, to think critically, and to collaborate on projects. It is important for the younger generation to improve their public speaking competence so that they can express their critical and creative thoughts in front of others. This study is a descriptive qualitative study and the data are collected by observations. This study aims to describing how to train students’ public speaking skill through drilling method. The samples as well as subjects of this study were 28 students. Public speaking training was conducted for a month using the drilling method at the Tahfidz Takhasus Daarul Qur'an Islamic Boarding School Palembang. The drill method was carried out in seven steps namely association, objectives and core material delivery, motivation, practices, demonstration, evaluation, and program follow-up. The training was carried out by introducing the material through lectures and discussions, and was continued with the drilling method to train the students' rhetorical or speech competence in public. Students demonstrated public speaking in English, Arabic and Indonesian. The advice given to the training participants is to maximize training in public speaking, especially making speeches in various languages so that they can be used when engaging in society.

The Effects of Online Production-Oriented Approach (POA) on Chinese Undergraduates’ English Speaking Competence Development During COVID-19 Pandemic Era

The Covid-19 pandemic has expedited Online Teaching and Learning (OTL) following a sudden closure of academic institutions. Although within the past years, POA was fully developed and expanded in various projects that yielded fruitful college English learning results (Matsuda, 2017), recently, in the learning and practice of Oral English by Chinese undergraduates, there are distinct drawbacks and issues affecting language learning. This paper attempts to apply POA to Chinese undergraduates' oral English classes based on OTL during the covid-19 pandemic, specifically focusing on whether POA can increase the effectiveness of oral English learning for undergraduates. Data analysis of both the pre and post-tests revealed significant improvement in the experimental class and minimal improvement in the controlled class. Students' pronunciation, vocabulary, and fluency improved in the experimental group. It is implied that the POA application was effective in enhancing Chinese undergraduates' speaking skills. Some suggestions are put forth to enhance the application of online POA during the covid-19 pandemic era.

Corrective Feedback In Eap Speaking Class

Research on Oral Corrective Feedback, especially related to its factors, has become a topic that is still widely discussed in teaching English because various application contexts will produce different conclusions. That is why it is important to study this topic further where this research aims to test a group by applying a single pretest-posttest method by providing oral Corrective Feedback. The participants in this study were a lecturer and 27 students in a Speaking English for Academic Purposes (ESP) class at the State Islamic University in Malang, East Java. The results showed an increase in the mean score from the pretest to the posttest. This means that giving Corrective Feedback provides benefits during the learning process for students in improving. Several factors in Corrective Feedback can explain how students respond to the Corrective Feedback given so that Corrective Feedback can play a significant role in improving the competence of speaking English. It is hoped that by understanding the use of Corrective Feedback, teachers, lecturers and educational practitioners will better understand which types of Corrective Feedback can have a positive impact on improving English speaking competence for English learners as a foreign language.

IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY THROUGH ROLE PLAY AND PICTURE AND PICTURE AT SMP NEGERI 1 RATAHAN

The purpose of this research is to prove whether role play and picture-in-picture are effective or not in improving students’ speaking abilities at SMP Negeri 1 Ratahan. This research is classified as "classroom action research" because it was conducted in a cycle. The second-grade students were taken as a sample consisting of 20 students. The writer used a reflective journal, field notes, and tests in collecting data. The data were analyzed in a way that triangulates the data sources. It compared the data obtained from reflexive journals, field notes, and tests. This was intended to get a general description of the students' progress. The triangulation was interpreted to get the result of the research. The findings of this study revealed that by using role play in Cycle 1, only a small number of students improved their speaking competency, with a mean score of 5. By applying picture and picture in Cycle 2, more students were able to speak, with a mean score of 6. The result was classified as moderate. Through the combination of role play and picture-and-picture in Cycle 3, most of the students made great progress, with a mean score of 8, and it was categorized as good.

Watch and Practice: Effectiveness of Using WhatsApp as a Multimedia Tool in Boosting Speaking Competence during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia

With their audio-visual capacity, linguistic and non-linguistic content, WhatsApp group video calls appear to have great potential for encouraging EFL learners' speaking development. However, the literature has yet to establish the degree to which WhatsApp group video calls promote English learning motivation and self-efficacy, reduce English speaking anxiety, authentic self-assessment, or urge teachers and students to improve their digital literacy. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the effect of using WhatsApp group video calls to improve students' speaking skills and reveal the extent of this media's impact on student learning. The pre-/post-test, the two-group quantitative explanatory research design was undertaken, featuring one hundred and nineteen students from four classes. A test and questionnaires were used for data collection, and then data were analyzed by using SPSS 24.0. The findings reveal that WhatsApp group video calls have been helpful for increasing learners’ speaking competence during the COVID-19 pandemic and promoting students' English speaking motivation. With all these advantages in mind, this study suggests that ESL/EFL speaking instructors use WhatsApp group video calls in their distance or online English speaking classes.

Developing Speaking Competence of Professional Undergraduate Students Through Socratic Questing Approach

Abstract : This research article primarily focuses on how speaking competence can be enhanced by Socratic Questioning Approach. There are several methods and approaches formulated and applied at different levels to enhance speaking skills, but critical thinking and questioning attitude is still lacking at undergraduate levels. 32 heterogeneous professional undergraduate students (Creswell, 2018, p.157) have participated in a five months twenty-one days intervention study (Yin,2009 & Stake,1995, p.123) to know the desired outcomes. The pre and post-tests results have considerably and possibly been recorded during the study. CEFR (Common European Framework of References) CAN DO descriptors (Council of Europe, 2018 p.171), are adopted to assess the speaking competence. The pre and post-tests have been assessed based on CAN DO Descriptors. After employing Qualitative Research Methodology (Creswell, 2018) to analyze the data obtained through both succeeding and preceding tests, significant results have possibly been founded and observed that professiona l unde rgradua te student s have considerably enhanced their speaking abilities and competences. CEFR levels of individual performance and variations have scrupulously been observed. This research article ontologically asserts that professional undergraduate engineering students can enhance speaking skills by thinking critically and applying Socratics Questioning Approach (Paul,2006) implicitly and explicitly. Keywords : CEFR, Critical Thinking, Intervention Program

Descriptive study to assess the factors influencing the level of confidence in English speaking among first year nursing students in selected school and college of nursing

With the world changing to a village, the use of English language, and most importantly, the English speaking competence is becoming more important. Looking at its importance, students of every field are required to have high oral proficiency. However, we find that undergraduate students show less desire to speak English during the speaking classes. When it comes to oral communication, they still cannot communicate effectively and confidently. There might be many factors involved that stops them from communicating.Aim: Descriptive Study to assess the factors influencing the level of confidence in English speaking among first year Nursing Students in Selected School and College of Nursing At Madurai was carried out.Methodology: 65 samples were selected using Purposive Sampling Technique. A self- administered questionnaires for demographic variables and Four point Rating scale was used to assess the level of confidence in English speaking among first year Nursing Students. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data.Result: Data interpretation revealed, (38.46%) had Low confidence, (61.54%) had Moderate confidence, (0.00%) had High confidence. There is significant association between the factors influencing student confidence in English speaking and the willingness in Nursing.Conclusion: The study emphasis that most of the undergraduate students on entering into the higher studies struggle in communication as the medium of education at college level is in English. English should be taught and training should be given to improve their speaking skills, so that their confidence level and challenges to encounter their studies can be met.

INDIVIDUAL FACTORS OF MEDICAL PHD STUDENTS' ENGLISH COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE.

The aim: The paper is aimed to find correlations between English language communicative academic and medical competence components (theoretical, practical, and individual by certain methods), to improve design of the course "Academic English for PhDs in Medicine", its methods and strategy. Materials and methods: The study sample includes postgraduate groups studying for PhD in Healthcare, aged 21-59 years, in Bukovinian State Medical University (39 respondents), Zaporizhzhia State Medical University (32 respondents), Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education (33 respondents), and Bogomolets National Medical University (318 respondents). The study was held in 2019-2023. We assessed theoretical and practical components using our tests, individual component - psychological methods. The values of three components were transformed into general English communicative academic and medical competence level. The data were treated with SPSS Statistica 18.0, using Spearman correlation significance. Results: We found positive correlation between English communicative competence and communicative tolerance, general communicative skills level, and high or medium communicative control level. Also, positive correlation characterizes interaction as a conflict-resolving strategy and communicative competence. Highly manifested intolerance in communication, predominance of negative mindsets, intolerance to stress negatively affect the level of English communicative academic and professional competence of PhD students. Conclusions: Analysis of the English speaking competence, and its components, showed positive correlation between interaction as a conflict-resolving strategy and English communicative competence of respondents. Regarding the results, the curriculum of the "Academic English for Medical PhDs" should be modified, including interactive methods, case studies, problem solving, and other methods for individual component training.

The Correlation between Students’ Interest in Speaking Materials and Debate Speaking Competence and Achievement at Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu

The objectives of this research are to investigate the correlation between students’ interest in speaking materials and debate speaking competence then investigate the correlation between students’ interest in speaking materials and speaking learning achievement and investigate the correlation between debate speaking competence and speaking learning achievement simultaneously. This research is mix method, quantitative approach by using the correlational study as its method and qualitative. The samples of this research are 21 students. The data were gathered by using a questionnaire, interview, speaking test, and documentation value and were analysed by application SPSS. The findings showed the correlation between students’ interest in speaking materials and debate speaking competence at English student Muhammadiyah University of Bengkulu was 0.587. Furthermore, the correlation between students’ interest in speaking materials and speaking learning achievement was 0,460. In conclusion, interest in speaking materials gives a positive influence between debate speaking competence and achievement.
 Keywords: Interest, Speaking Competence, Speaking Learning Achievement, Speaking Materials

Professional Orientation

Employability and employability skills or attributes, such as teamwork, problem-solving and communication or language skills as well as ICT or digital skills, have become important aspects in the context of teaching and learning in higher education. In order to respond to these changes and needs, the German Section at the University of Namibia introduced a new component, namely “Professional Orientation” in their first-year modules to raise students’ awareness about the job market and to increase their language competence. Different professions and careers are introduced by guest speakers to give students insights into various professional careers with German. This is combined with a holistic language training that involves reading, listening, speaking and especially writing. This approach, as observations and evaluations have shown, enhances students’ language competence in speaking, listing, but also reading and especially writing, as one subject specific employability skill, communication skills in general as well as digital skills. Further, it raises students’ awareness about employment opportunities and specific skills especially in a subject that lacks a professional specification.
 
 Keywords: employability – employability skills – digital competence – career guidance – foreign language learning – language competence – communication skills – German Studies

Analisis Buku Teks Pelajaran Bahasa Arab SMA/SMK Muhammadiyah Pada Maharah Al-Kalam Sesuai Standar Common European Framework Of Reference (CEFR)

Learning Arabic in SMA/SMK Muhammadiyah aims to develop language competence in the aspects of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. This research is literature research with the object of research is an Arabic textbook for class X SMA/SMK Muhammadiyah by Helmy Fauzi Awaliyah and Fauzi. This study focuses on the speaking competence in the book. Analysis of the data using content analysis techniques with the method of observing data sources, both primary data and secondary data, who wants to explore the question of whether the contents of the book and the material presented are relevant to the correct book standards? What level of Arabic speaking competence is in the book based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Language (CEFR) reference? The results showed that in general, Arabic textbooks had fulfilled the material aspects, linguistic aspects, material presentation aspects, and graphic aspects. Then based on the CEFR standard reference, the textbooks are included at levels A1, A2, and B1.

The outcomes of a methodology for developing prospective pharmacists' English lexical competence

This study assessed the effectiveness of a methodology aimed at developing prospective pharmacists' professionally oriented English lexical competence in reading and speaking during individual study. The methodology considered students' interests and experience, forming lexical skills in reading, speaking, listening, and writing, integration with professional subjects, learning metacognitive, cognitive, and compensatory strategies, enhancing students' autonomy through purposeful forming their reflexive abilities, developing professionally oriented English lexical competence in reading and speaking within three stages, using the suggested system of exercises that consists of corresponding groups (correlating with the stages) and subgroups. The paper also substantiates the criteria for assessing the level of prospective pharmacists in mastering professionally oriented English lexical competence in reading and speaking: the accuracy of understanding, the correctness of guessing a lexical unit's meaning, the adequacy of lexical unit's usage, and lexical concentration. In addition, the paper describes the results of the experiment and validates the data obtained with the help of the multifunctional statistic criterion ∏* - of Fishers angular transformation.

PENINGKATAN KOMPETENSI BERBICARA GURU BAHASA JERMAN DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN MEDIA DIGITAL

The activity under the title Improving the Speaking Competence of German Language Teachers using Digital Media aims to improve German speaking skills of teachers at the BI level by using digital media. The importance of improving teachers' speaking skills, is one of the factors supporting the career of German language teachers, in addition to their pedagogical competence. Beside of that, teachers can apply it in the process of learning German in class. The expectation is teachers are able to develop themselves and learn for the advancement of their career and compete globally. According to observations, it is seen that not all teachers understand the model test of German language skills at level B1. In addition, some teachers still do not take advantage of developing digital media to improve language competence. One of the language skills that is deemed necessary to be trained is speaking. As one of the productive competencies, speaking skills need to be trained continuously as part of improving language competence. As an institution which produces professional educators, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education Pattimura University needs to provide knowledge and experience in helping German language teachers improve speaking competence at B1 level. This activity involved 16 German Language teachers from high school in West Seram Regency. The used methods were varied, namely playing, lecturing, question and answer, discussion, partner work and group work. This activity is carried out in several stages. First, it begins with the introduction of the B1 level of speaking competency test. Second, providing material about digital media and techniques that can be used. Third, implementation. In this stage, the teachers practiced speaking with partners. Then they discussed and working the task in groups. Finally, presenting the project of the group's work about tourism spot in West Seram