Issue |
SHS Web Conf.
Volume 42, 2018
Global Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning in Education (GC-TALE 2017)
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Article Number | 00004 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20184200004 | |
Published online | 29 January 2018 |
Using Mobile Phone to Overcome Students’ Anxiety in Speaking English
1
English Department, Faculty of Letters and Culture, Universitas Negeri Gorontalo, Indonesia
2
SMP Negeri 5 Anggrek Gorontalo Utara, Provinsi Gorontalo, Indonesia
* Correspondingauthor: karmila.machmud@ung.ac.id
The goal of this research is to discover whether the use of mobile phone can minimize students’ anxiety in speaking English and in turn will improve their speaking skill. Anxiety has become a major problem for students when asked to speak in a speaking class. Using quasi experimental method, the data of this research was collected through questionnaire of foreign language anxiety classroom scale, and oral test for speaking ability. Factorial design 2 x2 using ANOVA is used to analyze the data of this research. The result has shown: (1) the score of students’ learning achievement in speaking English who were taught by using mobile phone application was higher than the students’ who were taught by using conventional teaching. It means that the use of mobile phone application results in better influence towards students’ speaking ability; (2) The learning achievement of the students with high anxiety in speaking English who were taught by using mobile phone application was higher than the high-anxiety students who were taught by conventional teaching; (3) The learning achievement in speaking English of low anxiety students who were taught by using mobile phone application was higher than low anxiety students’ who were taught by conventional teaching.
Key words: students’anxiety / mobile phone application / mobile technology
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