The use of whatsapp in enhancing learners oral communicative competence
English language instructors have always pursued new and interesting approaches thatmay help to overcome language teaching and learning barriers. Therefore, this study was conductedmainly to explore Media Assisted Language Learning Approach (MALL) using one of the mostprominent media application kno...
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| Format: | thesis |
| Language: | eng |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://ir.upsi.edu.my/detailsg.php?det=6809 |
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| Summary: | English language instructors have always pursued new and interesting approaches thatmay help to overcome language teaching and learning barriers. Therefore, this study was conductedmainly to explore Media Assisted Language Learning Approach (MALL) using one of the mostprominent media application known as WhatsApp as an instructional tool in communicative languagelearning classroom. This study was specifically proposed to examine the effect that WhatsApp voiceand video features may have towards learners oral communicative competence as well as exploringtheir perception towards its use by conducting a social media learning scale survey. This researchadopted a quasi-experimental approach that compares experimental and control group whichwere assigned with different treatment. The learning process of both experimental and control groupwere based on two hours of in-class learning but supplemented with different treatments forinformal classroom tasks. Experimental group was given the tasks to do voice and video recordingof communicative dialogue and shared them in the groups WhatsApp channel. On the other hand,control groups participants were assign with traditional approach tasks such as paper-baseddialogue construction, open-ended writing exercise, and presentation. This study conductedindependent sample t-test analysis to compare both means of control and experimental groupspre-test and post-test scores. The result for independent t-test analysis for pre- test score is t(43) = 0.372, p=0.712, which proposed that both groups of respondents possessed the same levelof oral communicative competency prior to the treatment given. After the treatment, theindependent sample t-test then reported that there was a significant difference between posttest score for control and experimental group, t(43) = -2.99, p = 0.005, p <5. The result proposed that the experimental group with WhatsApp integrated treatment has outperformed those in control group with traditionallearning. It was concluded in this study that WhatsApp manage to affectlearners oral communicative competency positively. |
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