Asynchronous Online Discussion For Teaching Students’ Efl Writing And Speaking (Indonesian Context)

Abstract

This investigation is designed to find out is there any significant effect of an Asynchronous Online Discussion Through Trello Application on Tenth Grade Students' Writing and Speaking Skills at Indonesian Senior High School in the 2019/2020 academic year. The population is the first-grade students of Senior High School. The sample of the research is two classes which consisted of experimental and controlled class, which all population is as the sample. It was attended by using experimental research design. The experimental group was taught by using Trello application, while the controlled class was taught by using conventional technique or no treatment. The instrument was applied to gather the data by asking students to write recount paragraph for writing test and retelling story as oral test in speaking. After analyzing the data, it was discovered that the value of t-count for writing was 8,4965 and t-count for speaking was 11.6175 with the degree of freedom (df)= 37. It means that t- observed was higher than t-table (1.9949). The product of this investigation showed the score of the result that teaching by using Trello application was higher than taught without treatment. It means there was a significant effect.