Students' Perceptions Toward Video Project as Media in Improving Their Speaking Skills

Abstract

This study is aimed 1) to find out the students’ perceptions toward video project as media in improving their speaking skills, and 2) to find out the strengths and weaknesses applying video projects in learning speaking. This participant in this research were 39 students second semester at English Department Universitas Pancasakti Tegal. Qualitative method was applied in this study. The researcher also used triangulation with three instruments. Questionnaire, interview and documentation were used as the instruments to get the data. The finding of this research showed that the students have positive perception in toward video project as media in improving their speaking skills. The students agreed that the video project developed their confidence to speak. Students find their strength in speaking in their confidence in front of the camera. The students felt they found some of their weaknesses in the video project, especially in pronunciation they had to take it back several times if there was a pronunciation error and this became one of their weaknesses in speaking English. They also find their strength in their self-confidence which makes them not feel nervous when they already have experience speaking through video projects because of the fun nature of videos. For the further study, it is expected for other researchers to explore more about the use of video project as media.