The Influences of ELSA Speak on English Speaking Competence of 12th Graders in a High School

The study aims at investigating the impacts of ELSA Speak, which is an educational application, on improving students’ English speaking competence at a senior high school. This is an action research, and the instruments utilized for data collection included two tests (pre-test and post-test) for students, their everyday journals, a questionnaire, and a personal interview for each of them. The participants were 30 students in a class at a senior high school. The findings are expected to indicate that they all have favorable attitudes toward the use of ELSA Speak on a daily basis after a 3-month period of employing this application. Additionally, it is revealed that ELSA Speak can be a powerful tool to facilitate more rapid progress in the participants’ confidence as well as their speaking competence. There are further pedagogical implications arising from these findings. This research is supposed to be of profound significance to both teachers and students in teaching and learning English language speaking skills.