DIGITAL TOOLS AND STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL

Abstract

Teaching speaking to EFL learners is tremendously challenging. Having learned English for years at school and acquired sufficient vocabulary and grammatical features, students remain struggling to speak English effortlessly. For that matter, employing digital tools in teaching speaking can be regarded as a prospective solution since some of which are particularly designed for English language learning. These tools equip teachers with unlimited and up-to-date resources as well as facilitate students to be a lot more involved in the learning activities and are expected to better perform their speaking ability. Accordingly, researcher utilized some digital tools to teach students speaking skill to figure out the impact on their learning growth. This research employed quantitative approach to portray in detail the statistic descriptive of students’ scores which reflects students’ speaking proficiency progress and their perspective and attitude regarding the electronic devices use. From this data, further, it could be considered the benefits, disadvantages and follow up steps to escalate the potential application of such tools in teaching speaking.