Hovering Learner Awareness of Local Wisdom in Local Tourism-Destination (Ltd) Project Teaching Speaking

Abstract

The primary objective for this study was to investigate the students perception on how LTD Project enhanced speaking learners awareness of their local wisdom in a local tourism-destination project work with two specific purposes, which were to explore how the learners interacted with textual representations of their local wisdom to create their project and to what extent CELLO developed their communicative competence of the target language. This study was triangulated. The elicitation instruments were project instructions, test, interviews, and observation notes. The study revealed that, first, on the awareness of local wisdom in a local tourism-destination project works, the learners interacted with textual representations of their local wisdom through theme-centered learning process. Second, on the enhancement of CELLO and speaking skills, CELLO allowed the learners to deal with interactive, spontaneous, and more meaningful communication actively while mobile technology helped the learners consciously focus on speaking aspects of the target language. For pedagogical implications, project-based teaching with the support of CELLO and mobile technology can raise learner awareness of local wisdom in local tourism-destination topics effectively.