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Student’s Perceptions of Using TED Talks to Improve EFL Speaking Skill Kusumastuty, Patria Erry; Mulyono, Herri; Ekawati, Anita Dewi
UICELL No 3 (2019): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2019 (on progress)
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA

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This quantitative study investigated the students? perception of using TED Talks to improve their speaking skill. The study drew upon 210 in-service EFL scholar across universities in fourteen provinces in Indonesia. These student participants were asked to complete seventeen items of close-ended questionnaire. Statistical data analysis using reliability, descriptive analysis and One-Way ANOVA were performed using SPSS software. The findings revealed two students? perceptions about using TED Talks, there were positive and negative perceptions. The results were performed with differences between gender and age as demographic. Keywords: TED Talks, Speaking Skill
Student’s Perceptions of Using TED Talks to Improve EFL Speaking Skill Patria Erry Kusumastuty; Herri Mulyono; Anita Dewi Ekawati
UICELL No 3 (2019): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2019
Publisher : Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA

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This quantitative study investigated the students’ perception of using TED Talks to improve their speaking skill. The study drew upon 210 in-service EFL scholar across universities in fourteen provinces in Indonesia. These student participants were asked to complete seventeen items of close-ended questionnaire. Statistical data analysis using reliability, descriptive analysis and One-Way ANOVA were performed using SPSS software. The findings revealed two students’ perceptions about using TED Talks, there were positive and negative perceptions. The results were performed with differences between gender and age as demographic. Keywords: TED Talks, Speaking Skill
Teachers’ Perspective of Grammarly as an Online Grammar Checker to Improve Writing Skill Isyabella Isyabella; Anita Dewi Ekawati
UICELL No 6 (2022): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2022
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Writing is one of the important skills in English. Using correct grammar and spelling in writing English is an important aspect. There are many online spelling and grammar checking tools available today to improve the quality of your writing. In this modern era, writing plays an important role in real life. Teachers need more tools because they need to help them write and evaluate their writing. In this study the authors used Grammarly as an online grammar checking tool to check grammar, punctuation and spelling in written English. This study aims to determine the teacher's perspective on Grammarly as an online grammar checker tool to improve writing skill. This study uses a qualitative method with a survey design. The instruments in this research were questionnaire and interview to collect data.The population in this research were 20 English teachers who were given questionnaire, then the researcher took 13 teachers to be interviewed. The researcher use triangulation technique to analyze the data that has been collected. The results showed that the teachers gave a positive response to Grammarly as an online grammar checking tool. Teachers are helped by the Grammarly feature which can help check their English writing. The teachers believed that the results of the Grammarly check were accurate and reliable. They become more confident in writing when checked using Grammarly. The error explanation feature in Grammarly also adds to their insight in writing English. However, teachers also feel the lack of features of the limited premium version which requires payment to access Grammarly's premium features. Keywords: Teacher perspective, Grammarly, writing
An Analysis of Anxiety Speaking English in Online Learning using Zoom Cloud Meeting on EFL Students Putri Oktarina; Anita Dewi Ekawati
UICELL No 6 (2022): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2022
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Zoom Cloud Meeting is an application that is widely used for online learning, this application makes it easy to communicate directly virtually. When online learning is taking place using the Zoom Cloud Meeting application, many students feel anxious about speaking. This is because when lecturers ask students, many do not respond and they are afraid to speak. This study aims to find out the factors that influence students’ anxiety when speaking through zoom meetings. In this study, researchers used a questionnaire adapted from McCroskey (1970). The respondents of this study consisted of 104 EFL students who were in around JABODETABEK. Then the data were analyzed using descriptive statistics through IBM SPSS Statistics 26. The results of this study are that more students experience feel anxiety and fear when speaking English through Zoom Meetings when learning online. The findings of this study are to encourage EFL students to speak English without anxiety and improve their speaking skills in public or online classes. Keywords: Zoom Cloud Meeting, Online learning, Anxiety speaking
The Use of Podcast in Students with Metacognitive Intervention: Foreign Language Listening Development Hairunisa Fitriyanti; Anita Dewi Ekawati
UICELL No 6 (2022): UICELL Conference Proceedings 2022
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Podcasts have a become everywhere and easily accessible input for dialect learning it can enhance second the formal and semantic aspects of language. It learn aims to explore several unknown effects of podcast use through a metacognitive intervention for 12th grades of senior high school. This inquire about be valid the graphic quantitative strategy. This inquire about was collected online by utilize a questionnaire via Google Form that was distributed on WhatsApp and Instagram for senior high school students in Tambun Bekasi for the 2022/2023 academic year. Listening Exploratory approach and understanding of podcast using questionnaires, study diaries, and semi-structured interviews. Respondent of this study were 30 respondents, consisting of male 17 and female 13 senior high school students in SMK Karya Bangsa Tambun. The result find that language learners enjoy several benefits when using tuning usage podcasts. Additionally, learners have shown positive evaluations toward learning to listen through metacognitive techniques, indicating that it helped them become independent listeners. The findings of this research highlights the potency of applying technology-based listening learning in EFL contexts where are the many learners do not have sufficient authentic comprehensible. Keywords: Podcast, Extensive Listening, L2 Learners, Listening Deveploment, Metacognitive Techniques