YOUTUBE AS A TEACHING MEDIUM FOR LEARNING SPEAKING

Abstract

The problem of this research is lack of confidence that students encounter in class to speak up. Researcher use Youtube as the medium of learning English speaking. The questions for the research are how is Youtube used as an online teaching medium for learning speaking and what are the benefits and drawbacks of using Youtube as a teaching medium for learning speaking. In collecting the data, researcher did an observation during English class in school and interview five students to collect more data. The methodology of this research is qualitative case study because the research explored the phenomenon that happened in the data. Then, the data was analyzed by using thematic analysis because it reveal a phenomenon and explain it in detail. The first result of this research showed that students were doing some efforts to participate actively in learning English speaking even they experienced difficulties to express sentences because they were lack of vocabularies, did not master the grammar, and were not good in the pronunciation. The second result of this research showed they experienced some benefits but also some points showed as drawbacks of this implementation.

Keywords: Youtube, Teaching Medium, English Speaking