Students’ Perception On The Use Of Youtube Video In Improving Their Speaking Skills

ROBIN, Mario Novaris (2022) Students’ Perception On The Use Of Youtube Video In Improving Their Speaking Skills. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Widya Mandira Kupang.

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Abstract

YouTube video is one of the media for improving students' speaking skills. This study aimed to explore students’ perception on the use of YouTube videos in improving their speaking skills. The subjects of the research were thirty-two (32) students in the 6th semester of the English Language Study Program at the Widya Mandira Catholic University Kupang. An online questionnaire was distributed to collect data from the participants. Items in the questionnaire were adopted from questionnaire developed by Alkathiri, (2019). The result demonstrated that YouTube video was an effective medium to enhance students speaking skill and can be applied as an alternative media for the self-direct speaking learning process. Furthermore, the students feel helped by the existence of YouTube to improve their speaking skills, such as to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words, make them better understand the material, help them increase the number of words, allow the students to increase the ideas while speaking, help them understand the material being delivered, also their pronunciation is improved when they learn via YouTube. It can be concluded that the use of YouTube is able to improve students speaking skills.

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