Maulina, Nurdin Noni, Muhammad Basri
This era of 4.0 industrial revolutions, lecturers, especially English lecturers have to be aware with the technology particularly mobile technology that can enhance their students' English skills in utilizing social media such as WhatsApp to improve students' English speaking ability in order that they can show high self-confidence and motivation to learn this international language. This research aimed at describing students' day to day English speaking skills via WhatsApp group set as a platform for audio and video chat-based for a semester period. Through these chat-based, students were expected to solve problems in terms of selfconfidence and motivation to speak English. Data was gathered in the form of group WhatsApp day to day observation and close-ended questionnaire with 27 participants selected purposively. These data were analyzed descriptively. The results showed that students felt very confidence and were encouraged to speak through WhatsApp group by audio and video recording chat-based from day to day speaking habit. WhatsApp as a social media has much potential for students to improve their speaking skill through audio and video recording. Therefore, the passive students were also engaged actively when there was a stimulus set by the lecturer and rest members in the WhatsApp group. © 2019 Asian E F L Journal Press. All rights reserved.
Muhammadiyah University of Kendari, Indonesia; State University of Makassar, Indonesia
