http://repository.unigal.ac.id:8080/handle/123456789/1241 Mon, 02 Nov 2026 21:47:09 GMT 2026-11-02T21:47:09Z http://repository.unigal.ac.id:8080/handle/123456789/10760 The Use of Whatsapp to Reduce Students’ Speaking Anxiety in a Blended Learning Activity (A Case Study at the Tenth Grade of a Vocational School in Wanareja) Supriyanto, Joko This study investigated the use of WhatsApp to reduce students’ speaking anxiety in a blended learning activity. This case study were conducted to the students at the tenth grade of a Vocational School in Wanareja. The aims were to figure out the extent of the use of WhatsApp reduces students’ speaking anxiety in blended learning activity and to analyze the features of WhatsApp that can reduce students’ speaking anxiety during blended learning activity. Based on the purposive sampling technique, the writer selected the English teacher and the students at class X Agribisnis Pertanian dan Holtikultura that consisted of 24 students as participants of this study. The data collected through the questionnaire, the interview, and the observation. There were four techniques used by the writer to analyze the data from research instruments, namely the frequency table, content analysis, coding, and triangulation analysis. The findings showed that the use of WhatsApp reduced students’ speaking anxiety in blended learning activity because of some considerations based on the students and the teacher’s perceptions. The findings also showed that six kinds of Whatsapp features were used by the teacher during the implementation of blended learning activity. Those Whatsapp features were WhatsApp group, photos, chat, WhatsApp document, voice messaging, and video. The conclusions indicated that the students perceived positively on the use of WhatsApp reduced their speaking anxiety in blended learning activity. The conclusions also indicated that six kinds of Whatsapp features were used by the teacher during the implementation of blended learning activity. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.unigal.ac.id:8080/handle/123456789/10760 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z http://repository.unigal.ac.id:8080/handle/123456789/1243 INVESTIGATING STUDENTS’ ENGLISH DIPHTHONG BASED ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY (A Contrastive Analysis between Indonesian and Indian Students) Anjani, Yusthya Regita This study reports how the cultural diversities in students’ English diphthongs between Indonesian and Indian students and to analyze the dominant differences of the students’ English diphthongs between Indonesian and Indian students. There are six participants of students, they are three Indonesian students and three Indian students. For this reason, it is deemed necessary to analyze the differences between Indian and Indonesian ways of speaking, more specifically regarding diphthong. Then it feels very interesting if used as research material. A qualitative study depends on the view of the subject of a study. A qualitative research investigates what participants think and use contrastive analysis in conducting this research. The data result is in the extent of an analysis of the amount of frequency and sound intensity which is displayed in tables and spectrogram graphics. In the spectrogram, the measurements taken to the diphthong involve the formant (the spectral form that results from the acoustic resonance of the human vocal tract) and also the duration of the vocal chanted. The results of measuring pitch and intensity at several diphthongs that have been carried out by presenting table data and spectrograms. The study conclude that there is a relationship between diphthong with the high and low pitch and the intensity in the pronouncing the word. Wed, 01 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT http://repository.unigal.ac.id:8080/handle/123456789/1243 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z