Gurushala

Voice Recording in second language outside the classroom: Process and product

In Vietnam, English is a foreign language. Therefore, students do not have many
opportunities to practise speaking outside the classroom. Inside the classroom, teachers
focus on teaching grammar explicitly. To enable students to practise their speaking
skills, Facebook closed groups were employed as a learning platform. Seventeen students
were asked to record their speech on suggested topics, post them on Facebook closed
groups and comment on their friends’ works within six weeks. The first and final
recordings were employed to analyse in terms of fluency and complexity. These students
were also interviewed after the course. They supposed that voice recording enabled
them to have opportunities to practise their speaking skills. The first and final
recordings showed that students improved their fluency and lexical complexity but not
for syntactic complexity.