THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING MICROSOFT TEAMS IN STUDENTS’ SPEAKING PERFORMANCE DURING PANDEMIC COVID-19 OUTBREAK

Abstract

The spread of Covid-19 changed the world to deal with the transformation of learning platform from the traditional classroom to virtual classroom. Due to this situation, the educational instructors or teachers are be able to find and use the appropriate online learning platform like Zoom, Google Classroom, Gmeet, Microsoft Teams, etc, to support the interaction between teacher and students particularly on speaking class. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of Microsoft Teams in supporting students’ speaking performance for English Department students. This study is quantitative reasearch with quasi experimental design. The subjects in this study are the second semester of English Department from University of Muhammadiyah Gresik which consist of 18 students each group for experimental and control group. The result of the finding revealed that Microsoft Teams was effective for supporting the interaction between teacher and students by provide the complete features and significantly support the improvement of students’ speaking performance; Pronunciation (13.85%), Grammar (9.37%), Vocabulary (8.95%), Fluency (10.76%) and Comprehension (5.79%). Therefore, this study not only helps the researchers in the use of Microsoft Teams as the online learning platform for University level but also leads to provide analysis in another aspect of english skills (Reading, Listening and Writing).