EDUCATIONAL APPS TO DEVELOP SPEAKING ABILITY AND GRAMMAR MASTERY AT SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL (SMANASIONAL BANDUNG)

Abstract

Technological and industrial developments provide opportunities for educational sectors in Indonesia to participate in advancing the education quality. The use of educational apps in enhancing education quality had reached the new level for learning process. Recently, virtual learning becomes the new concept of learning process, yet Widyatama University carried out the workshop and training to comprehend the students’ ability, especially in speaking ability and grammar mastery using learning apps. The methods used were lecturing and sharing sessions, hencethe instructors had information related to the appropriate e-learning concept in the relevant institutions. Moreover, the methods involved a question and answer session which brought the students escalatingtheir understanding the concept of e-learning especially by using educational apps.Sharing session and question and answer session purposed to simulate Speaking Ability apps directly to students; so the application was successfully used directly by the students. Through the process, students were introduced to do a migration of their learning method from conventional to the apps-based. The overview of the result taken from the workshop showed that 74% of students were assisted in improving their English skill (ability), while the rest 26% were still doubtful about relevant ideas of educational apps, since the student regularly learnt by conventional method.