Describing a Smart Learner in Mastering the English Speaking via Text Message Interview

Abstract

In a country of which English is considered as a foreign language, learners are lack of practicing in using the English language for real communication in their life. They prefer talking in their own languages. Their environment does not support them to have the emersion situation. The books they use are not printed in English. Their teachers do not use English for explaining their subjects. They never get a speaking test in their learning test. So they are not fluent in speaking the language. As the result they are not confident in communication. In the contrary, the problems are answered by a qualified student. How does the smart student becomes fluent in non English speaking country is explored in this research. It presents about the way how to be good a English speaker. She is interviewed via text-message interview to answer some questions about the activities how she becomes a good and fluent in Speaking English. As a part of qualitative research, her answers are used as the data that are employed to describe the activities that support her as a qualified English speaker. The findings are concluded that  she becomes fluent in speaking because she makes herself as an english user in various activities.

Keywords: English Users, Text-message, Native Speakers, Interview and Assignment.

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-30-06

Publication date:October 31^st 2020