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Journal : Research and Innovation in Language Learning

CROSSCULTURAL UNDERSTANDING STRATEGY IN SPEAKING LESSON TO OVERCOMING SPEAKING ANXIETY Anggraeni, Anita; Rachmijati, Cynantia
Research And Innovation In Language Learning (RILL) Vol 1, No 2 (2018)
Publisher : Lembaga Penelitian Unswagati Cirebon Indonesia

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The students are generally inseparable from liking popular culture to become a fan  and finally become their identity. In addition to favoring Western culture, there have also been other great cultures lately, for example Japanese, Korea, Thailand and so on. This study aims to examine whether with cross cultural knowledge students are expected to be more confident in speaking and reducing talking anxiety. This research method is descriptive qualitative research method. The data in this study were obtained from interviews and questionnaires adapted from Horwitzs "Language Classroom Anxiety Scale (FLCAS)" and Oregon Universitys "Value Rubric Intercultural Knowledge". It was found that the cause of speaking anxiety was 79% internal factor, 85% lack of knowledge and 30% faculty and friend factor. The result of the research found that the correlation between cultural understanding is closely related to the decreasing of students anxiety level in speaking english. It can be concluded that CCU does help in overcoming students speaking anxiety.Keywords :cross cultural understanding, speaking, anxiety
VLOG : A TOOL FOR STUDENTS’ SPEAKING PRACTICE ENHANCEMENT Anggraeni, Anita; Rachmijati, Cynantia; Apriliyanti, Dewi Listia
Research And Innovation In Language Learning (RILL) Vol 3, No 1 (2020)
Publisher : Lembaga Penelitian Universitas Swadaya Gunung Djati Cirebon, Indonesia

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Vlog, stands for video-blogging, is quite popular in the internet. Vlog also can be used as a learning tool especially for speaking skills. Therefore this research focuses on speaking skill via vlog to see the improvement of students? speaking skill. The method of this research was mixed methods. The research subjects were 13 vlogs made by students on the topic of spot tourism. The 13 vlogs were by assessed using the rubric developed by Dan Rooney (1998). The result found out that using vlog deemed to be improving students? speaking skill especially in the area of vocabulary, fluency, pronunciation and intonation. However the most common mistakes found are the way they delivered the introduction, how to form conclusions and the last is the grammatical structure. The findings of the research conclude that the application of vlog to improve students? speaking skill found to be successful with a positive perception from students as learning tool.