Students’ Perception of TED Application In EFL Students Speaking Class

Abstract

Learning a distant language is an integrated process of the four basic language skills; listening, speaking, reading and writing for EFL students. However, associated with speaking skill, some students have difficulties in mastering English speaking. Therefore, students need practices and media that ease and assist their learning either inside or outside the classroom to support their speaking ability and supply autonomous learning. In this study intended to discover the students’ perception on the use of TED application for speaking. In this analysis, the Descriptive Quantitative approach was used. By using questionnaire related to the impressions of the students on the use of TED application in speaking class, the data required in this study were collected. For this study, there were 33 students from an Advanced Speaking class at Lambung Mangkurat University who were selected as participants. From the questionnaire, the researcher discovered that most of them have positive perspective toward TED application. Thus, the researcher concluded that EFL students have positive perspective towards TED applications, they thought TED application benefitted for learning English, especially speaking skill.