IMPROVING STUDENTS' ABILITY IN SPEAKING OF PROCEDURAL TEXT WITH BALABOLKA ('TEXT TO SPEECH')

Titis Pawiyati RP Pramono

doi:10.26740/elitejournal.v2n2.p73-78

IMPROVING STUDENTS' ABILITY IN SPEAKING OF PROCEDURAL TEXT WITH BALABOLKA ('TEXT TO SPEECH')

Authors

Titis Pawiyati RP Pramono SMA Negeri 1 Porong

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26740/elitejournal.v2n2.p73-78

Keywords:

speaking skill, procedure text, senior high school, using text to speech, improvement

Abstract

This classroom action research is an effort to describe the impact of using 'Balabolka Text to speech' to raise the students' skill to produce Oral Procedural Text, especially about the Manual and Tips. It is one of the solutions to rid of the difficulties of English teachers in handling the students' oral learning activity. A test was given to 36 students of Class XI in a senior high school in Sidoarjo that have already applied Balabolka Text to Speech to learn about the Manual and Tips of Procedural Text. The function of this application is to convert any written texts into audio files, which can be used to train the students' skills in speaking about the steps to demonstrate manual and tips. The prospective advantages of the qualitative approach show that the usage of Balabolka Text to Speech in the English classroom may increase the students' skills to understand the oral Manual and Tips of Procedural Text. It includes: (1) improving the students' ability to mention the communicative purpose, ingredients and/or tools, and the steps of performing it after using the application, (2) raising the students' speaking skills to comprehend the text by observing the effectivity of the application.

References

Alshenqeeti, H. (2018). Technology in the language classroom: How social media is changing the way EFL is taught. Arab World English Journal (AWEJ) Special Issue on CALL, 4. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/crenm

Al Hosni, S. (2014). Speaking difficulties encountered by young EFL learners. International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature (IJSELL), 2(6), 22–30. www.arcjournals.org

Amelia, M. (2017). Utilizing Balabolka to enhance teaching listening. In Fifth International Seminar on English Language and Teaching (ISELT 2017) (pp. 40-43). Atlantis Press.

Brown, H. D. (2000). Principles of language learning and teaching (Vol. 57). New York: longman https://doi.org/10.2307/414380.

Febriyanti, E. R. (2011). Teaching speaking of English as a foreign language: problems and solutions. Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Dan Pembelajarannya, 1(2), 133-146.

Herawati, Y. W. (2016). Integrating character education and local genius through Balabolka in teaching listening. LINGUA, 11(1).

Dokumen Kurikulum: Daftar Nilai SMA Tahun 2015-2016

Stowell learning center. Retrieved from http://www.learningdisability.com/, Samonas Network.

Microsoft, software open source: Retrieved from http://www.cross-plus-a.com, Balabolka

Olshtain, E., & Celce-Murcia, M. (2016). Teaching language skills from a discourse perspective. In Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning (pp. 144-158).

Road, McClellan. (2011). Alternate media for e-book readers: High tech center training unit. California: California Community Colleges.

Vanderplank, R. (2010). Déjà vu? A decade of research on language laboratories, television and video. Language Teaching, 43(1), 1–37.

Downloads

Published

2022-04-29

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022): ELite Journal (Volume 2 Number 2, April 2022)

Section

Articles

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

License and Copyright Agreement

In submitting the manuscript to the journal, the authors certify that:

They are authorized by their co-authors to enter into these arrangements.
The work described has not been formally published before, except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, thesis, or overlay journal. Please also carrefully read ELite Journal's Posting Your Article Policy at editorial policy
That it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere,
That its publication has been approved by all the author(s) and by the responsible authorities â€“ tacitly or explicitly â€“ of the institutes where the work has been carried out.
They secure the right to reproduce any material that has already been published or copyrighted elsewhere.
They agree to the following license and copyright agreement.

Copyright

Authors who publish with ELite Journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-SA 4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

Licensing for Data Publication

ELite Journal use a variety of waivers and licenses, that are specifically designed for and appropriate for the treatment of data:

Open Data Commons Attribution License, http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/ (default)
Creative Commons CC-Zero Waiver, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence, http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1-0/

Other data publishing licenses may be allowed as exceptions (subject to approval by the editor on a case-by-case basis) and should be justified with a written statement from the author, which will be published with the article.

Open Data and Software Publishing and Sharing

The journal strives to maximize the replicability of the research published in it. Authors are thus required to share all data, code or protocols underlying the research reported in their articles. Exceptions are permitted, but have to be justified in a written public statement accompanying the article.

Datasets and software should be deposited and permanently archived in appropriate, trusted, general, or domain-specific repositories (please consult http://service.re3data.org and/or software repositories such as GitHub, GitLab, Bioinformatics.org, or equivalent). The associated persistent identifiers (e.g. DOI, or others) of the dataset(s) must be included in the data or software resources section of the article. Reference(s) to datasets and software should also be included in the reference list of the article with DOIs (where available). Where no domain-specific data repository exists, authors should deposit their datasets in a general repository such as ZENODO,Dryad, Dataverse, or others.

Small data may also be published as data files or packages supplementary to a research article, however, the authors should prefer in all cases a deposition in data repositories.