THE USE OF YOUTUBE ENGLISH SHORT STORY AS MEDIA TO INCREASE STUDENTS’ SPEAKING ABILITY

Abstract

The speaking ability of most students in Indonesia is still very low or lacking because of many reasons. Most students were not interested in learning English because it is difficult and boring to learn. In that case, the researchers decided to create a fun teaching and learning process by providing YouTube as a media of teaching. The quantitative method used in this research was a quasiexperimental consisting of a control group and an experimental group. To analyze the data, the researchers used SPSS program. The result of students’ who were taught using Manual Short Story Book was lower than students’ who were taught using YouTube English Short Story. It was shown by the mean score of pre-test was 23.34% and the mean score of post-test was 39.89%. Meanwhile, the result of students’ who were taught using YouTube English Short Story was higher than students’ who were taught using Manual Short Story Book where the mean of the pre-test was 23.47% and post-test was 50.63%. The students’ enthusiasm in the teaching and learning process was the most important part in affecting this improvement. The majority of students in the students’ perception agreed that using YouTube English Short Story as a media of learning can make the classroom fun. Based on this data, the researchers found that using YouTube Short Story as a media of teaching helps students increasing their speaking ability. Therefore, the teacher should make a fun learning process by using YouTube as a media for teaching in classroom