Using Oral Recording and Collaboration to Improve Oral Accuracy

Abstract

The aim of the study was to measure the effect of oral recordings and collaboration facilitated by WhatsApp messenger in order to improve oral fluency and to know to what extent students’ attitude changed towards speaking English. Action research was the main methodology used in this work. Also, quantitative and qualitative instruments were used to gather data. After an innovation that took into consideration a lesson which focus on a real task activity, participants were able to improve their oral accuracy mainly in the fields of vocabulary, pronunciation, and grammar. The effect size in each of the field of accuracy: vocabulary (1.494), Grammar (0.634) and pronunciation (0.653) confirmed that this innovation is significant. In addition, by the end of the innovation, participants also claimed that their attitudes towards speaking English in class improved. It is concluded that collaboration, recordings facilitated by the use of this technological tool, can in fact, improve the oral accuracy of students and improve their attitudes towards speaking English. This research can lead to future studies in the field of TESOL as well as in the field of EFL in the Ecuadorian context.