The Use of YouTube Media in Developing Students’ Speaking Skill (An Experimental Study at SMP Negeri 1 Darul Imarah)

Abstract

Abstract

This research aimed to find out whether the use of YouTube media in teaching speaking is effective to improve their speaking ability. The method used in this research was quantitative method because this research focused on the calculation between the result of pre-test and post-test. The subject of this research was the students of class VII A. The researcher used test as the instrument of this research. This result shows that there is different score of speaking before the students taught by using YouTube media and after the students taught using YouTube video. However, the result showed that the mean score of N-gain (%) is 45.56565924. It means that the category of the test is “Less Effective” Because the result of 40-55 is in the category less effective. Therefore, the null hypothesis (H₀) was accepted and the alternative hypothesis (H_a) was rejected. It means that the use of Youtube Video is not effective in improving students’ speaking score. There were some factors that made the students do not have a good ability in speaking by using YouTube media. Firstly, the students are lack of critical thinking knowledge. In addition, the students still lack of knowledge in the basic English material, such as grammar, vocabullary, tenses, and so on. The last, time duration in implementing the YouTube media was too short. However, the result of this research may give us enlightenment toward the importance to vary out media in teaching speaking in junior high school in order to make the teaching and learning process could run well and obtain the learning objectives as expected.