Students’ Perception Toward The Use Of Youtube In Learning Vocabulary (A Study Towards The Second Grade Of Mts Al- Khoirotpagelaran Malang)

Abstract

YouTube has an easy access for students either by their cell phones or laptops. They can watch videos anytime outside or inside the classroom which make them more motivated and eager to learn.Since YouTube website is a free-of-charge it makes it easy for learners and teachers to watch and upload videos. Teachers from around the world have created their own channelson YouTube and regularly uploaded different educational videos that many students find it beneficial. Covid-19 has been declared as a global pandemic by WHO. It affects all aspects of humans’ life, including their education. Teaching and learning processes during the pandemic of Covid-19 are done online. However, many Indonesian teachers have not used this teaching media and learned is its benefits yet. Therefore, this study was employed to investigate the students’ perception towards the use of youtube in learning English. This study employs survey method. In addition, this survey is followed up with interviews for more in-depth data. The involvement of both data from survey and those from interviews is might make the findings more dependable concerning the topic investigated. This study involved forty four students as the research participants to respond to questionnaire. Furthermore this study followed up the result of questionnaire by interviewing 3 out of those 44 participants.To collect the data, questionnaire was distributed using Googleform media with multiple-choice items , and Whatshapp media (recorder) to collect interview data. The findings reveals that the students have positive perceptions towards youtube. Most of the participants agreed that they like youtube because it helped them learn English. Another positive effect was that the students’ vocabulary improve. Hence, the findings suggest that youtube can be used as the alternative teaching media to improve students’ learning English especially learning vocabulary