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1, WhatsApp Group Features as a Learning Media in The Speaking Activities during Pandemic COVID-19 at MA Bustanul Ulum in Sampang
Keywords:WhatsApp Group Features, Learning Media, Speaking Activities.
The learning media is a tool to relay learning materials during the learning
process. There are many kinds of learning media, one of which learning on the
internet. During the pandemic COVID-19 internet based learning media that is
being used in the WhatsApp Group which is one of the features of the WhatsApp.
Using tha WhatsApp Group was an appropriate choice in learning English
particularly speaking, since speaking is an oral communication between human
beings so as to fit any features in the WhatsApp Group like voice note.
The purpose of this research study id to discuss how the learning process
particularly speaking activity uses WhatsApp Group and the strength of WhatsApp
Group for speaking activities at the first grade of Science at MA Bustanul Ulum in
Sampang with a qualitative descriptive.
The research of this research study was the learning process particularly
speaking activity using the WhatsApp Group as smoothly as offline learning in
general, like there’s opening, a core activity and its closing just is no done in person,
but the process still finds some difficulties like thin internet quotas, signal
disruption to a lack of understanding of the teacher’s explanation. Nevertheless, any
difficulties can be overcome using a few features in tha WhatsApp Group at once
its strengths, such as easy to access, requires a little internet quotas, there is a voice
note feature for speaking activity, can make a video call to see expressions of each
other, sending photos and videos and link of YouTube or Google. Thus learning to
use WhatsApp Group can enhance confidence skills as well as student’s curiosity
in English particularly speaking.
Based on the research above, it is suggested to the teacher to use WhatsApp
Group well to enhance student’s skill particularly speaking and giving a game or
ice breaking to the students in learning process to keep their mood and make an
interesting class. It is suggested for students at first grade of MA Bustanul Ulum in
Sampang to use voice note features well to improve English speaking ability
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