Improving Students Speaking Skills by Learning Video as Learning Media

Abstract

This research aims to improve students' speaking skills using learning video. Learning video is one of the learning media that can be integrated into learning English. The main focus of the study was to describe the role of learning video in improving speaking skills from the students’ perspective. The purposes of this research were: 1) to study the videos as learning media to improve speaking skills; and 2) to know how students’ perspectives on the use of learning video to improve speaking skills. The subjects in this study were 35 students of the Islamic Banking Department at Imam Bonjol Islamic University Padang who learned English. The data were collected through observation and questionnaire. The results of the study indicated that students’ perspectives on the use of learning video could improve their speaking skills. Furthermore, from the students’ perspectives used in the learning video, the students were able to pronounce words correctly and learn new vocabulary. They could perform confidently, more bravely, and without being nervous during the speaking process.