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Figure 4.31 The Project Screen
This activity is aimed to to bring the students to the real situation. The students are asked to interact with their partner with a certain context. Louma
2004 states that interaction can encourage the students to communicate to one another. In this activity, the communication among the students is developed by
giving opportunities to use the language in the real situation.
C. How E-talk Improves Senior High School Students’ Speaking Skill
In this part, the writer would describe how the application facilitates the senior High School Students‟ improve their speaking skill. There are four ways of
how the application improve the students‟ speaking skill. 1
E-talk Improves the Students‟ Pronunciation and Vocabulary by Providing Mini Dictionary Feature
According to Harmer 2001, pronunciation is one of the important aspects in speaking because correctness of pronunciation directly affects the appropriate
133 communication in conversation. Another important aspect of speaking is
vocabulary because it can help the students find appropriate diction for their conversation which results to the speaking effectiveness. Goh and Burns 2012
state that pronunciation is the ability to produce the sounds of the target language of the segmental and suprasegmental levels. The ability includes articulating
vowels, consonants and blended of English, assigning word stress in prominent words to indicate meaning and using different intonation to communicatte new
and old communication. In addition, Louma states that vocabulary and pronunciation are important aspects that enable learners to produce sentences
accurately. In this mini dictionary, the students can find the words that are needed for
daily conversation. In this mini dictionary, the students are also provided with pronunciation drill which enables the students to know and practice their
pronunciation. From both questionnaire and interview, the writer found that the students were satisfied with the mini dictionary feature because it can motivate
them to learn how to pronounce words correctly. .... E-talk provides a feature that enables us to check whether or
pronunciation is correct or not. It makes us know how to pronounce a word. Appendix 11, S1.
2 E-talk Improves the Students‟ Grammatical Skill by Providing Grammar
Feature Calce Murcia 1987 stated that grammar is essential to the communicative
language in teaching beacause it can influence the learners‟ speaking accuracy. Accoding to Louma 2007, accuracy refers to
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analysis, the writer found that the students want a tool which can help them study grammatical rules. Considering the importance of grammatial skill, the he writer
provided the application with “grammar” feature. In this feature, the students are provided with some explanation of grammatical rules and exercises to enable the
students to use the grammatical rules appropriately. .... I know the structure of simple past tense from the application
Appendix 11, S1
3 E-talk Improves the Students‟ Fluency and Comprehension by Providing
Expression and Conversation Feature According to Harmer 2001 fluency is the ability to speak smoothly and
easily without any hesitation of what is being spoken. It has a big role in speaking because it will influence the speakers‟ confidence in their speaking
performance. In addition, Louma 2007 states that fluency is the ability to express comprehensible language smoothly. Fluent speakers will speak without
any hesitation and many pauses in their communication. They will express the information communicatively, „effectively and naturally. Meanwhile, Harmer
2001 states that comprehension becomes one of the aspects of good speaking ability because it influences the conversation process. It is stated that
comprehension is the ability to comprehend the meaning of what is said. If both speakers comprehend what they are speaking, they will be able to grasp the
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135 The expression and conversation feature provide the students with
expressions and conversations dril l. In the “expression” feature, the students are
provided with some expressions that are useful for their daily conversation. Here, the students can also have pronunciation drill on the expressions provided. In the
“conversation” feature, the students are provided with some conversation examples which can help the students comprehend some conversation in many
different situations. ... the conversation feature helps us to know how to give an appropriate
answer in a real conversation Appendix 11, S2.
4 E-talk Promotes Independent Learning by Providing Feedbacks on Its
Features Brown 2000 states that self correction is one of some strategies to
monitor the oral production. Goh And Burns 2012 state that facilitating feedback on learning is important. It is stated that the feedback does not always
given by the teacher. In this case, e-talk is provided with automatic feedback in its
“mini dictionary”, “expression”, and “conversation” to monitor the students‟ oral productions.
... e-talk is good. Because it can help us practice speaking independently and it is simple Appendix 11, S3.
In conclusion, e-talk helps the tenth grade of Senior High School students improve their speaking skill by poviding some features that are based on some
theories of speaking. The theories helps the writer both in planning and developing the application. Meanwhile, the questionnaires and interviews help the
136 writer determined whether the application is an appropriate learning media for the
tenth grade Senior High to improve their speaking skill or not. The finding shows that e-talk is an appropriate learning media which can improve the tenth grade of
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
This chapter consists of two parts. The first part is the conclusions of this study as the answer to the problems formulated in the first chapter. These are
drawn from the analysis done in the previous chapter. The second part deals with the suggestions for future researchers who take the same studies.
A. Conclusions
Based on the analysis in chapter four, there are two conclusions that are drawn. The first conclusion is the description of the iconic Model of the Android
application for the tenth grade of senior High School students. The application is named ETALK. There are five major features in this application: vocabulary,
grammar, expression, conversation and project. The vocabulary feature contains
two main activities: mini dictionary and vocabulary quiz. The mini dictionary contains lists of vocabulary which enables the students to listen to the model of
pronunciation and to practice pronouncing the vocabulary. While the vocabulary quiz contains some pronunciation practice quiz for the students. The grammar
feature consists of some grammatical rules related to the topics learned by the students. It is provided with the explanation of the grammatical rules learned and
two kinds of exercises in the form of fill in the blanks and True False activities. The expression feature contains expression list and speak up. The
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