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THE INFLUENCE OF SKYPE TOWARDS STUDENTS’ WRITING SKILL Iskandar, Yuski; Ma’rifatulloh, Sayid
Teaching English as Foreign Language, Literature and Linguisticss Vol. 1 No. 2 (2021): TEFLICS
Publisher : Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris,, Fakultas Ilmu Pendidikan, Universitas Hasyim Asy'ari

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33752/teflics.v1i2.2164

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One of the main skill in learning English as second language is writing. Learning writing is necessarily important nowadays, not only for education purposes but also for occupation purposes as well. However, most of the students feel bored in writing; one of the reasons is because the teaching learning process still uses conventional method. Thereby, it seems that writing is difficult and boring because the students score in writing is low. Therefore, the researcher uses Skype as the media in teaching writing as an alternative solution for this problem. The study aim is to find if there is any significant influence of using Skype towards students’ writing skill especially in writing descriptive text. The result of this study showed that there is a significant influence of using Skype towards students’ writing skill.
THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS' MOTIVATION TOWARDS STUDENTS' SPEAKING ABILITY Amalya, Nadina Shofaa; Ma’rifatulloh, Sayid
Teaching English as Foreign Language, Literature and Linguisticss Vol. 2 No. 1 (2022): TEFLICS
Publisher : Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris,, Fakultas Ilmu Pendidikan, Universitas Hasyim Asy'ari

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33752/teflics.v2i1.2624

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Speaking is a daily activity that must be done but sometimes people take it for granted. In university level, as the semester gets higher, the difficulty of learning these skills also increases. Speaking skills lectures have been taught periodically and scheduled, but the circumstances in the classroom show that the students appear to be less participatory in speaking. Based on observations and brief conversation with some students, it can be concluded that students actually like speaking lectures but students are often afraid to point out mistakes in speaking due to lack of confident, willpower, and motivation. While motivation is an important component that cannot be separated in the teaching and learning process, especially in foreign language learning. The researcher use quantitative method. The aim of this research is to find out whether there is a positive and significant correlation between students' motivation towards students' speaking ability. The correlation index between X variable and Y variable is 0.348. It means that it has weak correlation. From the calculation of both variable above and indicated to the table of interpretation of rxy above, itsinterpretation that in both of variables has correlation. It meansthat both of variables have positive correlation (one wayscorrelation). Keywords: Correlation, Motivation Speaking