4) The Use of iPads for Oral Profiiency
Development
According to Krashen (1981), exposure to the
target language is crucial. It is believed that one
needs to experience an extended stay abroad to
become an advanced speaker ofa foreign language
since this opportunity helps to acquire advanced
language profiiency. However, noteveryone willbe
given such an opportunity, and staying in a foreign
countrydoes notalways guarantee good performance.
As Byrnes (2007) explains, it may not staying abroad
that helps students, but rather the quality and
extent of learning opportunities. With this concept,
more attention has been paid to a well-designed
instructional setting. Krashen (1981) states how fast
a person learns depends on the amount and quality
of comprehensible input he or she receives.
Likewise, students can acquire advanced profiiency
if they are exposed to the comprehensive input.
To support this, Ellis (2005) puts an emphasis on
the interaction that offers increased opportunities
to negotiate meaning. One of his four key
requirements,namely“creating a context of language
use where learners are attending to language”
suggests that instructors play an active role in
instructional process. Mastery of a foreign language
can be achieved when students try to communicate
in order to make the input more comprehensible
to each other. Assigning students to do tasks,
or activities that involve real and virtual
communications in English is one of the effective
ways to make them be exposed to various accents
or pronunciations (Kongkerd, 2013).
At present, creating such an environment can
be easily done based on the concept of mobileassisted language learning. Bennett (2011) points
out that mobile technologies like iPads can increase