Using Visual Aids to Develop Students’ Speaking Skill

The technological advancement has made the media rapidly grow, particularly as a learning media. Teachers and educators today are required to be creative, innovative and updated in finding and using media as a learning tool in class. It can't be avoided anymore the use of technology in millennium era has become a necessity for teachers in EFL teaching. This study aims to discuss how a video-based conference video channel known as TED Talks can be useful in improving students’ speaking skills. The methodology used qualitative research and data collection obtained from relevant paper-based articles that have studied TED Talks as a learning medium to improve speaking skills. The results of this discussion paper showed that TED Talks has an effect on improving speaking among the EFL and also as a motivation for teachers and students to always keep spirit, inspirational and insightful. A novelty finding is that TED Talks also changes the students’ perspectives for the better, as they see that people from any country and ethnicity can speak English confidently in public.

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confidence: 99%

TED Talks in EFL Context: An Alternative Way for Teaching and Improving Student’s Speaking Skills

Nursafira¹

2020

“…To play this game we spend 15-40 minutes only, the material that we need is picture-strip stories or texts. On top of the flexible time needed for this game, bits and pieces game makes a great visual aid for students of all ages in general (Gistituati, Refnaldi, & Syaifullah (2019).…”

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"Bits and Pieces" to Improve the Students' Writing Skill: Using Educational Game as an Approach to Teach Descriptive Text

Rizky

2020

Students in Indonesia who learn English as a Foreign Language (EFL) encounter problems in learning how to write in English. Not a novel problem in the least, but the more connected the world is becoming due to the availability of information and communication technologies (ICT). This study aims to address the need to improve the generation’s English skills, lest they are left behind the moving era. This study is a classroom action research (CAR), using a test, observation, field note, and interviews as the research instruments. Twenty-nine middle school students were taught to produce descriptive texts using the approach of an educational game called Bits and Pieces. The results showed that the game improved students’ average scores in writing descriptive text from 70.12 (cycle I) to 79.75 (cycle II) as students’ were unanimously interested in the strategy, much more so than traditional approaches.

“…At a glance in these current times, there are obvious media that can and has been used to enhance the learning and teaching process of speaking skills. Visual media, such as pictures has a lengthy history of being advocated by researchers and teaching practitioners to improve students' speaking skills (Baidawi, 2016;Gistituati, Refnaldi, & Syaifullah, 2018). Using audiovisual materials from open access video databases such as YouTube to learn not just important values but also improve speaking skills is one of the easiest ways to blend formal classrooms to outside-class learning situations (Anwar, Derin, Nursafira, Putri, & Jazzawi, 2020;Susilo, 2019).…”

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Movie as a Helper for Students' Pronunciation in Speaking Skill Class

Yudar¹,

Aditomo

Silalahi

2020

This research aims to deliver how a movie can help students with their pronunciation in English speaking skill. Speaking is one of English skill that has an important role. While speaking, there is some aspect that has to pay attention to people. Pronunciation is an aspect that important in speaking skill. Pronunciation takes a significant role in speaking because it shows anything while someone speaks and other people understanding based on how someone pronounces a word. For the student who learns the English language as a foreign language should pay more attention to this area. This action is to avoid people misunderstanding of what the non-native speaker said while someone speaks in English. Therefore, it is very urgent to teach speaking to design learning activities as well as possible, and it also must be supported by various teaching media such as, movie, pictures, realia, television, etc. movie is one of the media that can help student speaking ability with improving their pronunciation skill.