SPOKEN LANGUAGE FEATURES IN A PROJECT BASED LEARNING OF ESP CLASS ACTIVITY

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to analyze the students’ ability in communicating using English in a form of a project work about five different Railway Infrastructure topics which analyzed based on their features of spoken language when having conversation. This study was conducted after mid-term test for 4 weeks by giving them a project to make a video of their conversing in public space related to the topics given. The population were 60 students of the same major; Railway Infrastructure Engineering (RIL / Rekayasa Infrastruktur Perkeretaapian) of ITL Trisakti from two classes. The sample of the study was taken from RIL A class which is taught and under responsibility of the writer. There were 30 students which was divided into 6 groups consist of 5 students. The result shows that the students are already able to speak English though their word choices especially for spoken language features are still very limited related to the topics given. However, students nowadays love to perform and they are very digital literate which is the reason why they love filming or doing the project.