Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2019)

The Use of Colloquial Words in Improving Students’ Speaking Through Teacher’s Daily Assessment

Authors
Dhia Hasanah
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Dhia Hasanah
Available Online 9 April 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200406.007How to use a DOI?
Keywords
colloquial words, speaking skill, teacher’s assessment
Abstract

Recently, there are many ways to get a new vocabulary and to learn English. One of the ways is watching YouTube. Watching Youtube has paid fully attention in students’ area. Imitating what favorite YouTubers say in their channel as colloquial words is very common to see in students’ daily conversation. The research aims to analyze whether colloquial words can help students to improve their speaking skill in context of communication and how colloquial words help students to improve their speaking skill based on teacher’s assessment in daily classroom activity. The participants of this study were eleventh grade students and also an English teacher in one senior high school in Bandar Lampung. This research used qualitative method by having class observation, interview, and rubric analysis. The function of interview was to strengthen the result of observation. In interview section, the researcher asked the teacher about their perspective related to the use colloquial words through students’ speaking. Teacher was also asked about their experience in assessing students during classroom activity. The result of this research gave a positive point about how colloquial words could improve students’ speaking skill. Teachers believed using colloquial words were able to improve students’ vocabulary and also to increase students’ confidence in speaking field based on their assessment. Based on this study, researcher suggested teacher to let students using their language styles in speaking.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
9 April 2020
ISBN
978-94-6252-952-6
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200406.007How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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