" I didn't need to be shy; I participated in the class": A case study of WTC learning support among university students in a remote area

• Published in: JEES (Journal of English Educators Society) (Sidoarjo) Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 74 - 83
• Main Authors: Shofiyatul Hasanah, Parahita Pradipta, Erfan Efendi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitas Muhammadiyah Sidoarjo 01-04-2022
• Subjects: remote area; university students; wtc
• ISSN: 2503-3492
• DOI: 10.21070/jees.v7i1.1644

In language classrooms all around the world educators contest to get students to address in the target language (Yashima, 2018). Educators in University level are steadily attempting new methodology to enhance students with WTC to efficiently speak during teaching-learning process. This qualitative study was designed to investigate the link between students' Willingness to Communicate (WTC) English via Mobile Assisted Language Learning (MALL)by the media supporting devices used in online learning.  To gain the data, some interviews to ten lecturers and seven students’ participant have been conducted. the finding revealed that media supporting devices in online learning relate to students' WTC English via MALL such as (a) teaching-learning media flexibility, (b) teaching-learning media clarity, (c) teaching-learning classroom sequence formality, (d) teaching-learning media consistency, then (e) techno pedagogical discernment over lecturers and students. This study necessitates that heightening the WTC teaching-learning capacity via MALL through mobile devices extends substantial learning assistance, predominantly in the concept of efficiency for online classroom activities in real-time concurrences.