Students' Perception of Vlog as A Self-Learning Media in Speaking

Abstract

Speaking is one of the most challenging skills in learning English. Many obstacles are faced when
learning to speak, such as lack of motivation, fear of making mistakes, and lack of self-confidence.
These problems are often found during the teaching and learning process in the classroom. A
teacher is expected to continue innovating for exciting and fun learning methods and media to
increase learning interest, motivation, confidence, and creativity in speaking. It is needed not only
in the classroom but also in independent learning. This study aims to discover students' perception
of the learning process for their speaking skills through using vlogs as a self-learning media and
the effect of using vlogs on students' motivation, confidence and creativity. The researcher took
the research object of the English Language Teaching Department students in UNU Purwokerto.
The data were obtained by giving a speaking project as a vlog with a specific theme. Data
collection was conducted by providing questionnaires and interviews to find out students'
perceptions about the effect of using vlogs for the improvement of motivation, confidence and
creativity and also observing the students' vlogs to find out the learning process of speaking from
the aspect of pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary. Data analysis is qualitative descriptive with
theories from Dulay and Fromkin (1982). This study found that based on students' perceptions,
they agreed that using vlogs improved their motivation, confidence and creativity. Meanwhile,
based on the observation, it was found that there were some pronunciation errors and grammar
mistakes in the students' speaking, but they showed improvement in choosing vocabulary. Some
students used a variety of vocabularies that were rarely used in the class.