The Effect of English Videos On Students’ Speaking Ability at SMK Hidayatul Mubtadin Singosari Malang

Abstract

Speaking is the hardest aspect of learning English for most people. Some factors contributed to problems in speaking English, such as boredom with the media used in the teaching and learning process, having difficulties in understanding the materials or remembering the English words; students require a media that can capture their attention and provide comfort while learning to speak English. English video is one of media used to teach students’ speaking skill by fun. Those facts urged the researcher to do a experimental quantitative which is called Pre-test- Post-test Control group research on teaching students’ speaking skill using English videos. This purpose of study is covererd by one research questions to fiugure out; “Does Using English Videos affect Students’ Speaking Skill at SMK Hidayatul Mubtadiin Singosari Malang?”. To cover up this questions, the researcher selected senior high students as the participants and devided into control and experimental group. To collect the data, the researcher selected a video as the media and scale questionnaire to know students ability of watching videos toward their speaking ability. The reseacrh finding shows significant results of effectivenes of teaching speaking skill using videos. The computation data using independent t-test show the sig-value of equal variances assumed is 0.00<0.05 which means that Ho is rejected while Hi is accepted. It can be inferred that teaching speaking (procedure text) using video as the teaching media is affective for students’ speaking improvement. It is clearly shown that the experimental group gained higher mean with 85.57 with SD 3.668 than control group with 77.05 with SD 5.054. This result is also supported by experimental group post test score that 67% of got grade A (Excellent) and 33% got grade B (Good). From those findings, it can be concluded that teaching speaking skill using video is proven as effective way to teach students’speaking skill. This finding migh be very usefull for all English teacher who focuse on develing students’ speaking ability.

Keywords: English Videos and Speaking Ability.