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Examining the Extensive Speaking Practice for Instagram Live Shows: A Narrative Inquiry Research in an EFL Context


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Fatiha Najma Yustisia - K2217035 - Fak. KIP

Speaking is one of language skills that needs both cognitive and affective filters to master. However, covid-19 pandemic changed how people learn EFL through mobile phones or computers in which learning speaking takes place. This research tells how the researcher’s experiences with Instagram live shows reveal about extensive speaking practice and how using Instagram live shows as extensive speaking practice can enhance her speaking skill. This study is an autobiographical case study in narrative inquiry design which collected the researcher’s experiences when conducting Instagram live shows. The data of this paper were taken both from non-narrative data and narrative data. The non-narrative data were from video documentations of Instagram live shows, while the narrative data were from written Learning Language Histories (LLHs). The data, then, were analyzed thematically. The study found that Instagram live streaming practices revealed extensive speaking principles focusing on an autonomous learning journey that improved the researcher’s intercultural communication skill, communication skill, learning network opportunity, and most notably speaking skill. Instagram live streaming definitely pushed the researcher to have extensive speaking practices which enabled her to have more output of the learned language, English, in an advanced level. Those outputs gave the improvement of language element’s awareness and language skill.