Self- Assessing Students’ Recordings to Improve Interaction in Speaking skill

Abstract

“English is considered as the most commonly spoken language and oficial language of nearly 53 countries” (KParvathi, 2016, p.10). English is a lingua franca that allows learners to work in different fields; education, technology, medicine, and others. English covers all fields of study and helps to establish a better development in the society. Education has changed since Covid-19 appeared. Nowadays, virtual classes are helpful in any career. Public schools are using synchronous sessions to maintain interaction with the students but there are few public schools that only use WhatsApp to send tasks or voice notes. Meanwhile, other public schools have virtual sessions. In addition to this, output skills refer to speaking and writing. Those are principal skills that learners use to communicate. Brown and Yule (1983) said “Speaking is the skill that the students will be judged upon most in real life situations” (as cited in Bahadorfar & Omidvar, 2014, p.9). Speaking in virtual classes is demanding for some students that do not want to interact or do not know how to do it. Having a speaking participation allows students to feel more engaged, and the virtual sessions will be the best way to start using a digital application likes Vocaroo. The teacher knows that learners need to practice even if they do not have face-to-face classes. This research study focused on self- assessment through recordings showing how students can improve their speaking. Pino (2021) mentioned that Teachers often have to use new ICT tools or social networks. These apps have many benefits and teachers need to explore them for use in the classroom. Students can use an audio / video recording program to record student voices on any topic, analyze the oral skills of other students, and provide immediate self-assessment through the same medium (p.6). This Public school suffers a lot of problems. Most of the cases they do not have English staff and some Spanish teachers try to teach them but it is not the same. In this study, the researcher observes that students do not receive English classes when they studied in primarly school. In few words, learners do not have vocabulary. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to show how self- assessing students’ recordings help to improve interaction in speaking skill.