Students Perception’ toward The Role of YouTube Video in Improving Their Speaking Skills
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Keywords: YouTube, language learning, speaking skill improvement.Abstract
Abstract: YouTube video is one of the media for improving students' speaking skills. This survey study aimed to explore students’ perception toward the role of YouTube video in speaking skill improvement. The subject of the research is 188 students of the English department in Universitas Negeri Malang. An online questionnaire was distributed to collect data to the 2017, 2018, 2019 cohorts of English Language Teaching (ELT) in Universitas Negeri Malang. Items in the questionnaire were adapted from some questionnaires developed by Alkathiri (2019). The result demonstrated that YouTube video was an effective medium to enhance students speaking skill improvement and can be applied as an alternative media for the self-direct speaking learning process. Furthermore, students feel helped by the existence of YouTube to improve their speaking skills, such as increasing the number of new vocabularies, improving pronunciation, and helping them speak fluently. It can be concluded that the use of YouTube is able to improve students speaking skills.
Keywords: YouTube, language learning, speaking skill improvement.
Abstrak: Video YouTube adalah salah satu media untuk meningkatkan keterampilan berbicara siswa. Studi survei ini bertujuan untuk mengeksplorasi persepsi siswa terhadap peran video YouTube dalam peningkatan keterampilan berbicara. Subjek penelitian ini adalah mahasiswa jurusan Bahasa Inggris di Universitas Negeri Malang. Kuesioner online dibagikan untuk mengumpulkan data kepada angkatan 2017, 2018, 2019 Pengajaran Bahasa Inggris (ELT) di Universitas Negeri Malang. Item dalam kuesioner diadaptasi dari beberapa kuesioner yang dikembangkan oleh Alkathiri (2019). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa video YouTube merupakan media yang efektif untuk meningkatkan peningkatan keterampilan berbicara siswa dan dapat diterapkan sebagai media alternatif untuk proses pembelajaran berbicara mandiri. Lebih lanjut, siswa merasa terbantu dengan adanya YouTube untuk meningkatkan keterampilan berbicara mereka, seperti menambah jumlah kosakata baru, meningkatkan pengucapan, dan membantu mereka berbicara dengan lancar. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa penggunaan YouTube mampu meningkatkan keterampilan berbicara siswa. dalam belajar dan berlatih menulis teks naratif. Selain itu, komik dipandang berhasil meningkatkan kualitas teks naratif yang ditulis oleh siswa.
Kata kunci: YouTube, pembelajaran bahasa, peningkatan keterampilan berbicara.
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