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of group video calls. The respondents • Movie review
were saved as number 1, 2 3…. and not • E-play with emojis
by their names. The researcher had the Emojis are very interesting elements on
list of students with the number so that Whatsapp and most of the users use
she could make note of the graph of emojis to express their feelings. It is a
their performance. The six tasks were:
psychological assistance as many who
• E-play with emojis never want to express themselves in
• Meaning the memes words always use emojis. Emojis exist
• Questions please in living and nonliving forms like facial
• Act an advertisement expression, weather, fruits, vegetables,
• Narrate a story –spin the yarn figurines, objects, animals.

Table-5: My friend is special because

Aim To enhance speaking skill
To encourage critical thinking
Preparation time Flexible
Resource Smartphone with internet

Procedure • Later connected three participants
on video call Whatsapp randomly
• Researchers instructed the
participants to copy more than and asked them to narrate the story
three emojis of their choice to using emojis.
create a story. The interest to speak in English was
• Asked the participants to draw the improved among the participants. The
emojis on a paper and describe the assessment (table-6) was done and it
select emojis after due preparation. was categorized as weak, satisfactory,
The researcher instructed them good and excellent. The table below
to show the paper while narrating shows the assessment components.
their story on Whatsapp video call.

Table-6: Assessment of the performance

Assessment items No. of Percentage Level
respondents
Choice of vocabulary 60 30 Weak
Confidence and attitude 60 40 Satisfactory

Improvement in speaking 60 40 Satisfactory
Connecting to real life sit-uations 60 60 Good

Meaning the memes concept and catchphrase. Most of the
memes are created with misspellings
A meme is used or spread on social
media with macro images fusing with and usage of incorrect grammatical
aspects.

16 Indian Journal of Educational Technology
Volume 3, Issue 2, July 2021