The use of YouTube to facilitate english pronunciation learning at SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Taman Sidoarjo: teacher's and students' perceptions

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Sasmita, Adi (2022) The use of YouTube to facilitate english pronunciation learning at SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Taman Sidoarjo: teacher's and students' perceptions. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

Nowadays, YouTube has become a popular web-based video streaming service used by many people including teachers and students. YouTube videos provide interesting content for students to learn English pronunciation. Thus, this study aims to investigate the teacher’s perception of using YouTube videos to facilitate students’ English pronunciation learning, to investigate the students’ perception of using YouTube videos to facilitate students’ English pronunciation learning and to investigate the procedure of using YouTube videos to facilitate English pronunciation learning. The subjects of this study were one English teacher of SMP Muhammadiyah 2 Taman Sidoarjo and 16 eighth-grade students of 8A International Class Orientation. The data for this study was gathered using a descriptive qualitative approach that included an interview and a questionnaire. The findings of using YouTube videos indicated positive perceptions from the teacher and students during English pronunciation learning. Both the teacher and the students received the benefits of the use of YouTube videos. The teacher could help students to remember the English words, varied learning experiences to the students, and helped students to improve their English pronunciation. Meanwhile, the students could enhance their English pronunciation. In addition to the benefits, this study found the challenges in using YouTube videos in facilitating English pronunciation learning. The challenge faced by the teacher was to search for videos that are suitable to the teaching topic. Other than that, some students had challenges in the form of the inadequate internet connection, experiencing blurry and unclear videos, feeling annoyed when the YouTube videos suddenly stopped and started continuously, the duration of YouTube videos, the use of YouTube videos, the device and the content of the videos. Furthermore, the procedures of using YouTube videos to facilitate English pronunciation ability are that teacher prepared the tools, played the YouTube videos, and asked students to practice the English pronunciation. This study concludes that the use of YouTube videos to facilitate English pronunciation learning provides benefits for both teacher and students and at the same time provides challenges for the teacher and students.