Pecha Kucha Technique in Developing Students’ Speaking Skills of a Foreign Language

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10.2991/assehr.k.210427.071How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Speaking, Pecha Kucha, Guangxi University for Nationalities

Abstract

This research is motivated by the lack of speaking ability of foreign students who have not been able to pronounce words accurately. The difficulty experienced by foreign students is caused by the desire to immediately end the speaking activities when they are given certain topics due to limited vocabulary. In addition, foreign students feel insecure in pronouncing words because of inaccuracies in pronunciation. To overcome this problem, speaking activities were managed by determining the topic and duration of speaking. This study used a descriptive method which aims to explain the use of Pecha Kucha technique as a medium for speaking skills for foreign students in Berbicara III course. The research data were obtained from learning activities at the Indonesian Language Department, School of Southeast Asian Studies, Guangxi University for Nationalities, China. The results show that students’ abilities improved after speaking simultaneously by using the Pecha Kucha technique. By means of this technique, students were encouraged to explain certain topics coherently and were trained to explain topics within a predetermined time. The Pecha Kucha technique allows students to be able to speak with a range of materials that is appropriate to the topic, clearly, straightforwardly, and on time. Speaking activities using the Pecha Kucha technique had made students skillful at speaking by not only being able to speak fluently but also being able to make students think systematically and explain topics in context. Students’ abilities also improve when viewed in terms of vocabulary, coherence of sentence production, pronunciation accuracy, and use of vocabulary according to the context. In addition, the Pecha Kucha technique has increased students’ focus and confidence.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ridzky Firmansyah Fahmi
AU  - Ida Widia
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/28
TI  - Pecha Kucha Technique in Developing Students’ Speaking Skills of a Foreign Language
BT  - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 466
EP  - 470
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210427.071
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210427.071
ID  - Fahmi2021
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