The Use of Self-Recording Video for EFL Students: A Qualitative Study of Indonesian EFL Students’ Perceptions

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine students' perceptions of the use of SRV among EFL students and to identify its effectiveness, especially in speaking ability. The research also aims to find out the role of SRV in improving students' speaking skills. This study involved 50 students from 2 classes who used SRV as a learning medium that focused on speaking skills. Data on the use of SRV by students were obtained from a questionnaire adapted from research conducted by Encalada & Sarmiento (2019). Of the total number of respondents, 5 students who met the criteria in this study were involved in semi-structured interviews which were validated by one of the speaking lecturers at the University of Islam Malang. This interview aims to determine students' perceptions of the use of SRV in the learning process. The findings of this study indicate that students' perceptions of using SRV media increase their ability to express positive and negative comments. The positive perception states that students feel that SRV can help improve their self-confidence, motivate them to try and prepare themselves better in speaking skills, feel more accessible without any pressure to make videos while speaking without being seen by many people, other people's eyes, and also the presence of other people both in front of and beside them. Negative perceptions of using SRV stated that students were not fully assisted in speaking skills, especially in public speaking. Therefore, students need more qualified training or material regarding the SRV method as a medium for improving speaking skills, such as giving SRV assignments regularly, making SRV a part of speaking learning material, and giving grades to SRV assignments that have been done by students. That way students will be familiar with the SRV method in the speaking learning process, besides that Students will also feel enthusiastic and motivated in implementing speaking learning especially by using the SRV method.

Keywords: Speaking, Self-Recording Video, Student Perception.