Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Christian and Inter-Religious Studies (ICC-IRS 2024)

Increasing Students’ Confidence in Speaking English through Online Collaboration Classes

Authors
Holla Franciska1, *, Oktaviani Sumerdi Basirun2
1Institut Agama Kristen Negeri Palangka Raya, Palangka Raya, Indonesia
2State Senior High School 1 Pematang Karau, East Barito, Indonesia
*Corresponding author. Email: hollafranciska@gmail.com
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Holla Franciska
Available Online 16 June 2025.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-424-2_24How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Students’ Confidence; Speaking English; Online; Collaboration Classes
Abstract

The study was conducted in the purpose of improving students’ self-confidence in speaking English through online collaboration classes. The number of the subject was 20 students of class XI of State Senior High School I Pematang Karau, East Barito, Central Kalimantan. All the subject were the students who had been taught English speaking based on the curriculum in academic year 2023/2024. This study also carried out activities with 20 students of State Senior High School 3 Palangka Raya class XI. The study used classroom action research for implementing the activities. The action was done in three cycles and the data gained was collected from the results of observations and questionnaires. The quantitative approach was also used to process the data. The results showed that participation in online collaboration classes significantly increased students’ confidence in communicating using English. The observation results showed the good category level with percentage of achievement 78.12% was in last cycle, as same as the questionnaires result that showed good category level with score 2.55 in the last cycle which based on the Likert scale. Students reported that this activity could improve their speaking ability, reducing speaking anxiety, and increased their motivation to learn English.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of The 3rd International Conference on Christian and Inter-Religious Studies (ICC-IRS 2024)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
16 June 2025
ISBN
978-2-38476-424-2
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2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-424-2_24How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2025 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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