THE USE OF YOUTUBE MEDIA IN DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL (AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY AT SMP NEGERI 1 DARUL IMARAH)

This research aimed to find out whether the use of YouTube media 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 VII A. The researcher used test as the instrument of this research. The result shows that the mean score of post-tests was 73.56 and pre-test was 52.12. This result shows that there is significant difference score of speaking before the students taught by using YouTube media and after the students taught using YouTube media. The result showed that t- score (26.75) is higher than critical at level significant 0.05 (1.31784) for one test. It means that there is significant different between two tests. The alternative hypothesis (Ha) is accepted and the null hypothesis (H0) is rejected. However, even if there is a difference between pre-test and post-test, unfortunately it was less significant to make the students passed the examination of speaking because the minimun score of speaking examination is 75. But, the students got the average score only 73.56. It means that 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, vocabullary, tenses, and so on. The last, time duration in implementing the YouTube media was too short. However, the result of this research may give us enlightenment toward the importance to vary out media in teaching speaking in junior high school in order to make the teaching and learning process could run well and obtain the learning objectives as expected.