Title: MODIFYING A WHATSAPP GROUP TO ENHANCE SPEECH SKILLS VIA PODCASTS AND COMMUNICATIVE GRAMMAR

Author: Edy Suseno

Abstract: Fifteen EFL students found it difficult to express their views clearly in both written and spoken language. Joining the treatment class was their attempt to fix them. To begin the teaching and learning process, the instructor set up a WhatsApp group application. The lesson makes use of communicative grammar, observing, recounting, and lexico-grammar. The lesson’s resources come from YouTube, podcasts, and images. Every unit includes a presentation of all the materials. Using GTM, it began with lexico-grammar. The teacher asked the students to notice the text from the podcast in order to highlight how the grammar that was studied before was used in the text. In order to support their vocabulary development, the teacher also instructed students to interpret the text while listening to the tape. The students used the grammar they had learned to describe the photographs in order to achieve their language learning objective. It is easier for students to receive their assessments and teacher feedback when they use the WhatsApp app. The information gathered during the teaching and learning process was recorded in order to conduct a qualitative analysis. According to the investigation, using a WhatsApp group application to teach communicative grammar to students aids in their development as speakers and writers of ideas.

Keywords: Communicative grammar, grammar, speaking, vocabulary, whatsapp.

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