Developing Oral Proficiency Through CMC

Abstract

Recently a number of researchers had researched the relationship between speaking and CMC (Tudini, 2003; Payne & Ross, 2005; Nguyen, 2008). This study aimed to check whether Asynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication (ACMC) can develop oral proficiency. It was done in a month employing SOLOM (San Jose Area Bilingual Consortium (SJABC), 2009) and there were eight 10th graders participated in this study. There were pre- and post-test which was interview to test the students’ oral proficiency. The criteria which were assessed were comprehension, fluency, vocabulary, and grammar. The pronunciation was omitted because the tool which was used to develop oral proficiency was ACMC. The treatment was chatgroup facebook message. The data was the score of the students. The scores were collected from the average of the three raters. In order to use paired sample t-test, the assumptions needed to be met. Based on the test on the assumptions, the data did not meet the assumptions. Therefore, the data was analyzed by using Wilcoxon signed-ranks test. Findings suggested that there was no statistical development of all criteria.