Seflianti, Maria Arina Luardini, Natalina Asi: IMPROVING STUDENTS' PRONUNCIATION ABILITY IN SPEAKING USING "HELLO ENGLISH" APPLICATION

AbstractThis Collaborative Classroom Action Research was conducted to know the use of“Hello English” (HE) application to improve the students’ pronunciation ability in speaking.The subject and setting of the research were Speaking 2 students of English Education StudyProgram, University of Palangka Raya. The data were collected in form qualitative andquantitative data. The qualitative data were obtained from the result of questionnaire on theuse of HE application, and the quantitative data were taken from the test results to know thestudents’ pronunciation ability in speaking. The result shows that the mean score of PreAction Test of 52.3 was lower than the minimum mean score 70. The data of cycle 1 show thatthe students’ mean score was higher than minimum mean score (92.0) but there were somestudents who still had “fair” interest, activities, and ability when using HE application, whichmeans one of the criteria of success was not passed and need some improvement in cycle 2.The results in cycle 2 show that the students’ mean score was higher than minimum meanscore (94.3) and all the students had “good” and “excellent” interest, activities and ability whenusing HE application. It can be concluded that “Hello English” application can improve thestudents’ pronunciation ability by practicing it several times.Key words: “Hello English” application, pronunciatio