| dc.description.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 | en_US |
