Enhancing Learners’ Oral Fluency in Using English Through TBLT Approach at the Universitas Negeri Padang

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10.2991/assehr.k.210914.049How to use a DOI?

Keywords

TBLT, Oral fluency, higher education

Abstract

Task-based Language Teaching Approach (TBLT) has been introduced in the Asian language Classroom for a couple of decades [1] due to its effectiveness of learners’ language development but when it comes to implementing and research of TBLT in higher education language classroom, little attention has been paid as a result, learners’ English language proficiency in particular in the aspect of oral fluency is limited. Therefore, this research aimed to fill the gap to enhance learners’ oral fluency through the TBLT approach at the higher education level with classroom-based action research. The results discovered that learners’ oral fluency has developed slightly during the period of the TBLT approach in the classroom. Oral fluency was assessed in the format of the IELTS Speaking test with the trained IELTS examiner as an inter-rater and researcher himself and therefore learners were scored on the scale of IELTS band descriptors. Data were analyzed with Heaton formula and interview for descriptive purposes and employed Wilcoxon Sign-rank test for the quantitative analysis.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - La Mai Tulum
AU  - Havid Ardi
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/14
TI  - Enhancing Learners’ Oral Fluency in Using English Through TBLT Approach at the Universitas Negeri Padang
BT  - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on English Language and Teaching (ICOELT-8 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 254
EP  - 263
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210914.049
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210914.049
ID  - Tulum2021
ER  -