The Effect of Spotify Application on Students' Speaking Ability

Abstract

Spotify is a digital music streaming and podcast service that gives listeners access to millions of songs and other content from artists around the world. Spotify as a medium can certainly help teachers in facilitating student speaking learning activities.This study aims to determine whether or not using the Spotify application has a significant effect on students' speaking abilities.This study used a quasi-experimental research method (Quasi Experimental Design) or a pretest-posttest control group design involving two control classes and one experimental class. The control class was not given treatment in the form of learning speaking using Spotify media, while the experimental class was given treatment in the form of learning speaking using Spotify media.One class consists of 25 students who take speaking courses. Based on the data analysis, the researcher concludes that giving treatment using Spotify media has a positive and significant impact on students' speaking abilities. This can be interpreted that the use of the Spotify application as a learning medium or speaking practice can improve students' speaking skills effectively. This is evidenced by the significance value (p-value) which is lower than 0.05 (0.00 <0.05) and the t-statistic value (t-value) which is greater than the t-table value (4.915 > 2.0106). These results indicate that the use of the Spotify application as a learning medium provides significant benefits in improving students' speaking skills.