THE USE OF YOUTUBE VIDEO IN IMPROVING STUDENTS SPEAKING SKILL (AN EXKPRIMENTAL STUDY AT SMA NEGERI 2 SIMEULUE BARAT

This research aims to find out and investigates whether the use of YouTube video
in teaching speaking assisted students to improve their speaking ability. The
method used in this research was quantitative method because this research
focused on the calculation between the result of pre-test and post-test. The subject
of this research was the students of class X IPS. The researcher used Man
Whitney Test at the instrument of this research. The result shows that the score of
U2 < U1 that is 0<25. Therefore, null hypothesis (H0) was accepted and the
alternative hypothesis (Ha) was rejected. It means that there is no significant
different between two tests. The students still do not have good capability in
speaking. There were some factors that made the students do not have a good
ability in speaking by using YouTube media. Firstly, the students are lack of
critical thinking knowledge. In addition, the students still lack of knowledge in the
basic English material, such as grammar, vocabulary, tenses, and so on. The last,
time duration in implementing the YouTube media was too short.