The Use of Reallife Application in Learning English to Improve Students’ Speaking Skill
Keywords:
RealLife application, Students’ speaking skill, Learning EnglishAbstract
The RealLife app is designed primarily for people who want to improve their listening and speaking skills with people around the world. The purpose of this study is to find out if the RealLife app can improve students' speaking skills and to explore students' perceptions towards its usage in speaking learning. Conducted at SMA Swasta Yadika Kalijati, this study used a quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test. SPSS version 25 was used for data analysis including normality assessment, homogeneity and hypothesis testing to evaluate the impact of RealLife implementation on students' speaking ability. The results showed that the mean pre-test score of the experimental class was 61.96, which increased to 70.87 after treatment and the independent samples t-test showed a significant p-value of <0.001. In essence, the alternative hypothesis (Ha) was accepted and the null hypothesis (Ho) was rejected. The results of the questionnaire indicated that most students were interested and motivated to use the RealLife application in learning English with a mean score with average score of 81.09%, which was classified as good. Therefore, it can be concluded that the use of RealLife application can improve students' speaking skills. In conclusion, these positive results underscore the importance of integrating technology-based language learning technology-based language learning tools into the educational environment.
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