Enhancing EFL Students’ Speaking Competency Through Animated Learning Video

Abstract

Communicative competence seems to be a major issue to achieve by primary students in learning English in online learning process during COVID-19 outbreak. This is due to the lack of English exposure and innovative learning media which relate to 21 st century learning. For this reason, this sequential explanatory mixed-method study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of animated learning video upon students' speaking competency and to describe their responses. Divided into two groups, 70 upper-class students in suburban primary schools participated as the subject. Test, questionnaire, and interview were used to collect the data. The data of the test were analyzed by using a t-test formula to investigate whether there was a significant difference in students' speaking competency between the two groups. The data of the questionnaire and interview were analyzed descriptively to see students' responses towards the effectiveness of animated learning video. The statistical analysis showed that tobs value of Sig.(2 tailed) was .011 which means that there is a significant difference in students' speaking competency. The animated learning videos help them pronounce the words properly, improve their vocabulary mastery, be familiar with the structure, and be gradually more fluent in speaking. In short, animated learning video is appropriate to enhance students' speaking.

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