Improving Students’ Speaking Skill Through Reading Involving WhatsApp Application
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This study aims at investigating the role of reading in improving students’ speaking skills involving ICT, namely WhatsApp Application (WA). The investigation is carried out in the Class Action Research at SMK YP 17 Cilegon, Office Administration Department twelfth grade. The using of WhatsApp is to optimize the language in use. Students make a WA group where they can share video and give comments. So, there is two classes, the real class and WA class. This study is carried out in three cycles, first cycle is still called pre-reading, students are not given reading text yet, indeed they make video conversation. The last two cycles implementing reading text/ short story and making video conversation. On the observation of each cycle, by giving students reading text or short stories, students vocabulary improves. The improvement in vocabulary makes them able to use it and more confident to speak.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.30870/aiselt.v0i0.10882
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