Abstract:
For Indonesian EFL students, learning a foreign language is an integrated process of
the four basic language skills; listening, speaking, reading and writing. However,
related to speaking skill, some students have difficulties in mastering English
speaking. Therefore, students need practices and media that ease and assist their
learning either inside or outside the classroom to support their speaking ability and
provide autonomous learning. This research aims to find out students' perception
on the use of Orai mobile application or a mobile assisted language learning for
speaking. Qualitative method was employed in this research. The data needed in
this research were collected by using open-ended questionnaire related to the students' perceptions toward the use of Orai mobile application in mastering
speaking. There were 17 students from an Advanced Speaking class in Lambung
Mangkurat University who were chosen as participants for this research. The
questionnaire was given four weeks after they were acquainted with Orai mobile
application. From the questionnaire, the researcher discovered that even though
there are several students who encountered problems when using the application,
most of them have positive perspective toward MALL (Mobile Assisted Language
Learning) applications, especially Orai. Furthermore, there are several students who
have started to use other MALL applications after they tried Orai because they
thought MALL applications made them easier to understand material related to
their study. Thus, the researcher concluded that EFL students have positive
perspective towards MALL applications, especially ORAI since they thought MALL
application benefitted for learning English, especially speaking skill.
