Autonomous EFL Learners’ Ways of Practicing Speaking Skills During Pandemic of COVID 19;

A Study of Engineering Fresh Graduates

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210125.038How to use a DOI?

Keywords

English learners, autonomous learning, speaking skills, COVID-19

Abstract

Learning English is learning skills in which practice plays the most prominent role. Among other skills, speaking has the highest interest to be mastered by English learners. Not only English students but also general English learners, fresh graduates in specific, retain spoken English to apply for their further study or future jobs. The pandemic disruption, undeniably, has limited access to an offline English practice. That is why some autonomous ways of learning spoken English are worth trying. This study is aimed at finding out the fresh graduates’ way of improving their English speaking skills. Ten graduates of the engineering department were interviewed on their ways of improving their speaking ability in line with the absence of classmates or partners. The data were then analyzed descriptively. The findings showed that most of the respondents preferred to sing English songs in practicing English speaking skills. Some others chose to talk to themselves and use a mirror. Only a few of them focus on fluency, not grammar and none of them took online English courses. This indicates that sitting with classmates or having direct partners in improving spoken English is not a must.

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© 2021, 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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fidyati Fidyati
AU  - Idaryani Idaryani
AU  - Suryani Suryani
AU  - Rahmi Fhonna
AU  - Marina Marina
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/01/26
TI  - Autonomous EFL Learners’ Ways of Practicing Speaking Skills During Pandemic of COVID 19;
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Science, Political Science, and Humanities (ICoSPOLHUM 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 229
EP  - 236
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210125.038
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210125.038
ID  - Fidyati2021
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