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Analyzing The Factors Influencing Students' Willingness To Communicate In Speaking Classes at Universitas Negeri Gorontalo Herlina, Elin; Machmud, Karmila; Danial, Haris
Socius: Jurnal Penelitian Ilmu-Ilmu Sosial Vol 3, No 1 (2025): Agustus
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This study aims to analyze the psychological and situational factors that influence students' willingness to communicate (WTC) in speaking classes. This study focuses on second-year students of the English Education Study Program at Universitas Negeri Gorontalo who have completed the course “Speaking for Professional Context.” Using a qualitative design, data were collected through semi-structured interviews with ten participants selected through purposive sampling. Thematic analysis was used to identify the main themes in the data. The results of the study indicate that both psychological and situational factors significantly influence students' WTC. The most influential psychological factor is self-confidence, while the prominent situational factors include the interlocutor and the role of lecturers. Other prominent themes include learning anxiety, the influence of topic type on perceived communicative competence, classroom atmosphere, and instructor strategies. In practice, these findings can provide information and strategies for student learning and teaching activities in the classroom
The Influence of QR Code–Puzzle Towards Students’ Speaking Ability at Eight Grade of SMP Negeri 2 Kwandang Igirisa, Moh. Ulfan; Fatsah, Hassanudin; Danial, Haris
Socius: Jurnal Penelitian Ilmu-Ilmu Sosial Vol 3, No 3 (2025): October 2025
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This study investigates the effectiveness of using QR Code - Puzzle, a puzzle combined with a QR code developed as a learning medium, in improving the English speaking ability of students at SMP Negeri 2 Kwandang. This study uses a quantitative approach with a pre-experimental design, specifically a single group design with pre- and post-tests. A total of 29 students from class VIII-4 participated in this study. The instrument used was an oral essay test consisting of 9 questions, which focused on narrative text material. After six meetings integrating QR Code puzzles with Recount Text material, the data were analyzed using the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test with a Z value of -4.733 and Asymp. Sig. (2-tailed) .001. Since the p-value was 0.05, the null hypothesis (H₀) was rejected, and it can be concluded that there was a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test results. This shows that QR Code puzzles significantly improve students' speaking ability. These findings suggest that the integration of QR Code - Puzzle in English language learning can provide interesting, interactive, personalized, and effective support to improve speaking ability. Among the five assessed speaking components—pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension—comprehension showed the highest improvement, followed by pronunciation. These results suggest that the integration of QR Code–Puzzle fosters an engaging, interactive, and effective learning environment that enhances students’ overall speaking proficiency and specific linguistic competencies, particularly comprehension and pronunciation.