reading : What have i read : purpose

Developing Speaking Skills Using Virtual

Speaking Buddy

1.What is the author main 

argument ?

The author is main argument is to interdisciplinary study integrates ICT in education through the innovation of an interactive audio-based application as a tool to enhance English language speaking skills among less proficient students. So the author will use ICT to improve the student is speaking skill and audio- based application so all student have chance to train their speaking skill

2.List and explain the author reason for 

his/her main argument ?

1.Sociocultural perspective on learning to speak

language; various systems of counting; mnemonic techniques; algebraic symbol systems; works of art; writing; schemes, diagrams, maps and mechanical drawings; all sorts of conventional signs and so on’ are all important in mediating social and individual functioning, and connecting the social and the individual, so the author use  Vygotsky’s semiotic mediation to suggests that knowledge is not something directly internalized but rather, is developed through the use of socially-created ‘psychological tools’.

2.VirSbud Application

 The author use V- buddy like The Talking Tom, for example, for modify the students’ voice and this raises difficulties for the teachers to keep track in the progress of students’ confidence level. The teacher will not be able to identify whether the students are slightly nervous or extremely nervous when listening to the recorded voice in the Talking Tom due to nature of the app which does not present the authentic voice.