Promoting EASPod Application for Academic Speaking for EFL in Pesantren - Based University

Abstract

EASPod is kind of podcast devices that give opportunity someone to create and listen to content on  variety of topics. podcasting can assist learning materials in  field of education and language especially developing English Speaking skills. This research aims to promote EASPod application to assist students’  academic speaking skills. This research employed one group quasi experimental research design. The subjects were 36 EFL of pesantren based university in the third semester, Department of English Language Teaching, University of Darussalam (UNIDA) Gontor. Data collection technique in this research was pre- and post- test   while the data analysis technique utilize paired sample T test. The result  The potential effect of this implementation is students’ improvements in speaking skills proven by the Average score of speaking post-tests were higher than its pre-test. They increased by 6,64 %.  p Value is 0,000. if significant value (p) less than 0,05, it indicated improvement between pre and post test (podcasting 1 and podcasting 2) . These activities also rise students’ confidence and students’ accuracy of vocal use and articulation in practicing academic speaking. It means that podcasting in EASPod has been successfully applied in supporting English Academic Speaking for university students in Pesantren Based-University.

Keywords: Academic Speaking; EASPod; EFL; Pesantren