SPEAKING LEARNING PROCESS EXPERIENCED BY PROFESSIONAL GAMERS AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL IN MALANG

This research aimed at investigating the process of learning speaking applied by professional online gamers and the difficulties faced by professional gamers in learning speaking through online games at the university level in Malang. In this research, the researcher used a qualitative design to obtain information related to the speaking learning process by gamers. The research subjects in this study were twelve students from University of Muhammadiyah Malang, State University of Malang, and University of Brawijaya. In this research, the researcher used semi-structured interview and observation for gaining the data from the respondents. The results of this study found that all of the research subjects felt their English skills were improving, especially speaking skills from playing online games. The learning processed and the difficulties experienced by them as they often communicate using English and all respondents reported their problems with their self-confidence and linguistic problems such as they often forget the meaning of words and do not understand what their teammates are saying