The Correlation Between Watching YouTube Video and the Students’ Speaking Ability at English Education Department of University Islam Malang

Abstract

YouTube is one of the media to improve students' English speaking ability. Watching YouTube videos are an interesting medium that gives students better exposure to aspects of speaking skills. In this study, the researcher used quantitative approach. The participants of this research were 20 students of the fourth semester of English Department of University Islam Malang. The researcher chooses A class to be the participants of this study. In investigating this study, the researcher used questionnaire from Hikmah (2020) and speaking score from Speaking IV lecturer for collecting the data. The finding represented that there was a correlation between students’ watching YouTube video and speaking ability. The significance value calculated 0.040 is smaller than 0.05 (P-value = 0,040 < 0.05). This means, that the hypothesis (H0) was rejected and the null hypothesis (H1) was rejected. It can be concluded that there is significantly correlation between students’ watching YouTube video and speaking ability. In conclusion, 20 students from A class at the fourth semester are students who have good speaking scores which are influenced by watching English YouTube videos especially in speaking. By using YouTube videos as learning media, students can more easily improve their learning abilities, especially in speaking material. This shows that they understand the explanation given by the teacher and from watching YouTube videos. It can be concluded that watching YouTube videos can be one of the factors for students' speaking ability at A class speaking course in English Education Department, University of Islam Malang. Here the researcher would like to suggest. The first is for the teachers to provide interesting and effective media such as watching YouTube videos in order to improve students' speaking skills in learning process. The second is for the students must use these media as much as possible as well as watching videos about good pronunciation so that students can speak correctly to teachers, friends, family, and also foreigners. The last is for the future researcher to conduct a study about other factors in watching YouTube video as an influence on speaking skill such as increasing higher grades than before.

Keywords: Correlation, You Tube Video, Speaking Ability