The use of video to improve the speaking skill of the fourth semester students of State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Cirebon / Nana Priajana

Main Author: Priajana, Nana
Format: Thesis NonPeerReviewed
Terbitan: , 2010
Online Access: http://repository.um.ac.id/58471/
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  • ABSTRACTThesisEnglishLanguageEducation.GraduateProgramofStateUniversityofMalang.Advisors(I)Drs.FachrurrazyMA.Ph.D(II)Prof.UtamiWidiatiM.A.Ph.D.Keywordsvideoteachingmediaspeakingskill.TheteachingofEnglishasaForeignLanguage(EFL)speakingisnecessaryforuniversitystudentstohavebasicskillsoforalcommunication.UsingteachingmediaintheteachingofEFLspeakingmightbebeneficialtohelpstudentsimprovetheirspeakingskills.Asteachingmediavideocanofferaudioandvisualmodeloftargetlanguageascompletestimuli.TheaimofthisresearchwastoinvestigatetheuseofvideoasteachingmediatoimprovethespeakingskillofthefourthsemesterstudentsofIAINCirebon.Basedonthedataofpreliminarystudyitwasfoundthatthestudentsencounteredmanyproblemsintheirspeakingclasssuchasthestudentshadlowmotivationandreticencetospeakpoorgrammarandvocabularyandhadsomeerrorsinpronunciation.Withregardtotheproblemthisclassroomactionresearchwasconductedtosolvethoseproblemsoccurringinthespeakingclass.Thisresearchwasacollaborativeactionresearchinwhichacollaboratorassistedtheresearchertocollectthedatausingspeakingscoringrubricquestionnaireandfieldnotes.Thisresearchwasconductedintwocyclesfocusingontheimprovementofthestudentsspeakingperformanceandtheirpositiveattitudetotheimplementationoftheuseofvideoasteachingmediainthespeakingclass.Aftertheimplementationoftheuseofvideoasteachingmediainthespeakingclassfortwocyclesitrevealedthattheuseofvideocouldimprovethestudentsspeakingperformanceandgivethempositiveattitudetotheimplementationactivities.Thefindingsshowedthattheaveragescoreofthestudentsspeakingperformancecouldachieve81.54fromthedeterminedscore75.Inadditionitwasalsofoundthat82.22%ofthestudentshadpositiveattitudetotheimplementationoftheuseofvideointhespeakingclass.TheimplementationoftheuseofvideoasteachingmediainspeakingclasscancoveraprocedureofthreemainphasesThefirstphaseispre-viewing(1)elicitingthetargetvocabularytobeusedinthevideoandwritingthemdownontheboard(2)elaboratingthetargetvocabularywiththetargetexpressionsusedofthevideo(3)tellingthestudentsonwhattheyaregoingtostudyaboutandsettinguptheclassroomsothattheywillbereadytowatchvideo.Thesecondphaseiswhilst-viewing(1)assigningthestudentstowatchthevideo(withoutthesound)andaskingthestudentstopredictthings(placeactionsexpressions)(2)playingthevideo(withthesound)andlettingstudentschecktheirownprediction(3)givingstudentsthreechancestowatchthevideowithsound(4)havingstudentsdorehearsalfocusingonvocabularypronunciationandexpressionsusedinthevideo.Thethirdphaseispost-viewing(1)providinganotherdialog/conversationandaskingthestudentstoidentifytypicalexpressionsrelevanttothetopic(2)assigningthestudentstoactoutordoingroleplaywithsimilartopicofthevideoinpairsorgroup(3)givingthefeedbackandcorrectionsfromthestudentsperformances.Basedonthefindingsitisconcludedthattheuseofvideoasteachingmediacanbeoneofthesolutionstoimprovenotonlythestudentsspeakingskillsbutalsothetheirpositiveattitudeintheteachingofspeaking.ThereforeEnglishteachersaresuggestedtousethevideoasteachingmediatoteachtheirstudentsinspeakingclassanditisalsopossibletoteachotherlanguageskillsorcomponents.Thelimitationofthisresearchwasaboutthekindofvideo.Sinceinthisresearchtheresearcherusedtheinstructionalvideoforotherresearchersaresuggestedtouseotherkindsofvideoswhicharenotusedforinstructionalobjectives.