Journal Review INCREASING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH YOUTUBE

 

 

 INCREASING ENGLISH SPEAKING SKILLS THROUGH YOUTUBE

 

 Euis Meinawati, Nazzala Aulia Rahmah, Danang Dwi Harmoko, Nurmala Dewi

 

 POLYGLOT: Jurnal Ilmiah Vol 16, No 1 Jan 2020 page: 1 - 13

 

 

The purpose of this study is to help students learn using media YouTube. This paper focused on implementing YouTube as a method for teaching speaking that is different, interesting, and fun, while creating a classroom atmosphere that is comfortable and increases students’ enthusiasm for learning. Also, this study focused to increase students’ critical thinking from the video, so students are able to fluency in speaking, mastering of grammar and vocabulary, and using English for their life both of active or passive situation. Besides that, the teacher can use video that completed with the role playing. It is more interesting than only watching video.

 

In SMA IT Rahmaniyah, where the research was taken place, the writer found problems of learning English speaking skill that come from students, teacher, strategy, and facility of learning. The problems related to the learning process in the classroom are: 1) Some students are afraid to make mistakes in front of their classmates. 2) Some students keep asking their friend about English vocabulary for making a sentence. 3) The students have difficulty in verbalizing what they think. 4) The students need quite long time to make and speak one sentence. 5) Some students are not sure what they are talking about. The result of interview concluded that other problems in English speaking skills are grammar, fluency, and pronunciation. These problems ever found by Sayuri. In his research found that students faced problems in speaking English related to pronunciation, fluency, grammar, and vocabulary. The students also showed other problems which were obtained from personal students’ information, namely not having self-confidence, being afraid of making mistakes, shyness to others, nervousness, inhabit in speaking English, never practice, and nothing to say.

 

While the problem related to teacher, strategy and facility is the English teachers still use monotonous teaching style to teach English; they pay too much attention to the content of what they teach, instead of how they teach the materials. It needs media to support their technique. The previous research showed the effectiveness of YouTube in learning. Guan, Song, & Li (2018) concluded that By using multimedia technology, students’ interest in learning can be improved and by using useful and auxiliary teaching tools, teachers’ teaching tasks become much easier and teachers’ passion in teaching is recalled. Other finding show that the implementation of YouTube-based videos in teaching speaking can improve the students’ speaking skills and motivation (Riswandi, 2016).

 

This paper uses qualitative descriptive methods as the method of the research. The analysis begins with teaching speaking for 10th grade using media YouTube in SMA IT Rahmaniyah. Procedures of the analysis begin with observation. The writer tries to discuss with official English teacher at SMA IT Rahmaniyah about the problem that happens in school, especially in English subject. The writer tries to suggest the solution by changing the way of teaching them. The next is implementation. After getting permission from the English teacher to teach by the writer’s technique, the writer concludes about using YouTube as the media to help the writer in teaching the materials. The last is processing data and analysis. The writer collects the data from every meeting. It concludes that using YouTube as the media to attract students’ attention in learning English is quite effective. Students enjoy the lesson more because they feel like having a different situation than usual.

 

The result of using YouTube as a media can be a good alternative media for teaching speaking in the class. In this way, students are speaking more expressive, and don’t have to worry about the phrases they use when speaking. The way students imitate native speaker speaks is ease them to speak in English confidently. They are not confused anymore because they have resource how to speak English like native speaker. It can be seen by the result of their mean performance score of the first meeting and the last meeting.

 

This journal has several advantages such as: first, the use of words in this journal is easy to understand. In this journal, do not use terms that can confuse readers, so that readers can easily understand the content contained in this journal. Second, the author pointing out about the benefits of this method from both aspect the students and the teachers. Third, the author using attractive activities for students in gathering the data,