The use of voice recording on teaching English speaking at the tenth grade of MA Unggulan Darul Ulum Jombang

Voice recording is a tool that facilitates the students to record their English speaking performance. The main point of using voice recording is focusing on speaking exercise. This qualitative study is aimed to describe the use of voice recording on teaching English speaking at the tenth grade of MA Unggulan Darul Ulum Jombang. This study focused on the way the teacher used voice recording on the teaching of English speaking and the students’ responses toward the use of voice recording to their English speaking performance. The data collected through classroom observation and questionnaire showed that the teacher used voice recording for practice, revision and self-assessment. In the practice and revision, the teacher gave the students task to record their voice while practice reading aloud the recount text. The students also revised the mistakes they made in the final recording that they have sent to the teacher. In the self-assessment, the students redid their recording entries at least three times or more after realize that they have made error in pronunciation, grammar, speech and intonation in the first recording to gain an error-free project before submit it to the teacher. Meanwhile, the students’ response toward the use of voice recording is quite positive. Most of them redid the voice recording entries when they realized there was error in the speech, intonation, word choice, grammar, and did mispronunciation in the very first recording. Besides, the students also gave positive response about listening to their friends’ voice recording to improve their own recording. It showed that they mostly focus on their friends’ pronunciation when listen to others’ recording to improve their own pronunciation. Since the use of voice recording give positive response to the students, they want to practice more doing other speaking activities such as dialogue or monologue using voice recording. However, the result of this research may be assisted on the teaching English speaking to improve the students’ speaking performance.