Today’s English teaching and learning speaking in the digital era at the university level is full of challenges but promotes many possibilities. WhatsApp, the most popular social media used for communication, can be interactively utilized to study speaking about daily conversations in a flexible way anytime and anywhere to solve students’ speaking problems as well as one of the teaching and learning media in the disruptive era. This research was trying to develop WhatsApp-based speaking instructional material (WABSIM) for the Basic Speaking subject to help students speaking English effortlessly and fast about daily topics. This research was the first step of Research and Development (R&D) of the ADDIE model i.e., to analyze students’ needs to learn Basic Speaking through WhatsApp instructions. The research took place at the English Education Study Program of one private university in South East Sulawesi, Indonesia. Sixty-eight (68) students participated in giving information regarding to the students’ needs through an online survey in the Google Form. It revealed that students wanted to learn the Basic Speaking materials integrated with mobile technology in the form of social media of WhatsApp to make the learning is fast, enjoyable, fun, more communicative, more collaborative, and help them learning anytime anywhere, in and outside the classroom more independently. Also, students need real-life topics, authentic, interactive, and presenting domestic and international viewpoints in the WABSIM. Besides, the developed speaking materials should cover the audio and visual materials to cover students’ learning styles varieties, and the materials should include the speaking components such as vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, fluency, comprehension, and task. Data resulting from the needs analysis informed the researchers of crucial issues to consider in developing WABSIM for the design, development, implementation, and evaluation in the next phase of this project. Further, students’ preferences and learning goals can be integrated with perspectives from the mobile learning literature and the affordances of WhatsApp to facilitate communication, collaboration and interaction in ways that have the potential to accelerate English language learning on the part of university students. There would be value in conducting similar needs analyses for other mobile learning instructional material development processes internationally, both for comparison with the Indonesian results here and in order to inform those development processes.
This era of 4.0 industrial revolutions, lecturers, especially English lecturers have to be aware with the technology particularly mobile technology that can enhance their students’ English skills in utilizing social media such as WhatsApp to improve students’ English speaking ability in order that they can show high self-confidence and motivation to learn this international language. This research aimed at describing students’ day to day English speaking skills via WhatsApp group set as a platform for audio and video chat-based for a semester period. Through these chat-based, students were expected to solve problems in terms of self-confidence and motivation to speak English. Data was gathered in the form of group WhatsApp day to day observation and close-ended questionnaire with 27 participants selected purposively. These data were analyzed descriptively. The results showed that students felt very confidence and were encouraged to speak through WhatsApp group by audio and video recording chat-based from day to day speaking habit. WhatsApp as a social media has much potential for students to improve their speaking skill through audio and video recording. Therefore, the passive students were also engaged actively when there was a stimulus set by the lecturer and rest members in the WhatsApp group.
This was a correlational research with two predictors and one criterion. 103 students (both successful and unsuccessful male and female students) were involved in this research. The data obtained through SILL by Oxford (1990) and students’ English achievement based on gender were analyzed by using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics through SPSS program version 20.0. The findings, first of all showed that there was a significant correlation between gender and English achievement where r = 0.924 and p = 0.000 = 0.05. Second, there was not any significant correlation between LLSs and English achievement where r = 0.202 and p = 0.083 < = 0.05. Third, there was not any significant correlation between successful gender and their LLSs where r = 0.222 and p = 0.056 > = 0.05 but there was a significant correlation between unsuccessful gender and their LLSs where r = - 0.376 and p = 0.049 < = 0.05. Fourth, There was a significant correlation between gender and LLSs used simultaneously with English achievement where r = 0.264 and p = 0.04 < = 0.05.
Abstract. The agricultural sector has a very important and strategic role in the national economy. As the population grows, the need for food also increases so that effective and efficient resource management is needed in the midst of the industrial revolution 4.0. Agricultural activities, especially rice crop commodities, continue to run even though faced with various problems due to the presence of the industrial sector in the Cilacap region. This article aims to describe the factors that influence the agricultural sector which can still run in the middle of industrial areas. The method used in research is to use content analysis. The results of this study indicate that the factors that influence the continued existence of the agricultural sector in the middle of the industrial area, such as residents only have the ability to farm, retain parental land, and exploit the potential of Indonesia's agrarian nature.
WhatsApp is one of the most practical, cost-effective, and communicative mobile applications for college students to enhance their speaking skills. This study reconciled to consuetude college students to flexible habitual use of the English language learning and intended to improve their speaking abilities with specially tailored learning resources and activities aid known as WhatsApp-based speaking instructional material (WABSIM). This exploratory mixed-methods research evaluated oral chat-based utilization of WhatsApp by twenty-eight students for one semester using audio voice messages and video recordings of communicative activities in pairs or groups, dialogues, and interviews activities recorded in the WhatsApp group managed to produce every day classroom and noncollegiate activities. Speaking test consisted of an oral evaluation of student's fluency, vocabulary used, grammar, pronunciation, and comprehensibility aspects. It reveals that students demonstrated a stupendous developing speaking interest in building English sentences by raising questions and delivering responses, improved learning collaboration, created better learning engagement, increased learning self-awareness, and accelerated flexible communication. Besides, students achieved substantial academic progress astoundingly in a semester. Therefore, to emerge the significance acknowledged from this current study, in the current era of mobile technology advancement supporting teaching and learning English, WhatsApp oral chat-based assistance offering teaching and learning English flexibility is the most effective.
This study aimed to describe the implementation of microteaching activity by pre-service teachers in TEFL 2 class as well as to get an overview of the problems faced during microteaching so that they are able to improve the competence of teaching English later in both schools and other educational institutions. In this study, the method used was descriptive qualitative. The subject of the study were taken purposively by considering the achievement gained in previous subject namely in TEFL I class they reached the average value of 90 out of 100 with the number of subjects four (4) pre-service teachers. Data were collected through observation using video recording and field note as well as semi structured-interview. Aspects to be analyzed were methods used from opening, main, and closing activities by considering the characteristics of the method applied. The results of this study showed that Grammar Translation Method (GTM) and Audio-Lingual Method (ALM) became a method preference during the microteaching. Pre-service teachers showed no hesitation and well prepared in applying the methods. Translation activities, dialogue memorization, repetition technique, word pair technique, and game grammar technique were occurred. Problems faced were the gap between the theories and the practice of teaching methods such as lack of skills in facial and body expression, classroom management, and stresses with noises from classmates as the students.
This study examines efforts to increase milkfish production through technical efficiencycarried out in the District of Jangka, Bireuen Regency. The population was all milkfish pond farmers in the Jangka District, and the number of samples in this study were 78 milkfish pond farmers using a random sampling method. This research uses primary data and secondary data. Data were analyzed using the stochastic frontier method and analyzed descriptively qualitatively. The research objective is(1) analyze the factors of land area, labor, logs, fertilizers, feed and pesticides for milkfish pond farming, and (2)analyzethe level of technical efficiency of milkfish pond farming in the Jangka District of Bireuen Regency.The research results are therethe five production factors of milkfish pond farming, namely land area, labor, spindles, fish feed and pesticides which have a significant effect on milkfish production while the fertilizer variable has no significant effect on milkfish production. On average, milkfish pond farmers in the Jangka District of Bireuen Regency are technically efficient. However, farmers still have the opportunity to further increase efficiency, through the use of production factors according to their needs.It is recommended for further research to use more diverse variables so as to provide better results.
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