Using Video Recording to Improve Students' Speaking Ability

Agung Wicaksono
2018 Proceedings of the International Conference on English Language Teaching (ICONELT 2017)   unpublished
Improving learners' ability in speaking is one of the major problems faced by educators now days. Learners' speaking ability in my class is low including their pronunciation, fluency and their accuracy. Furthermore, most of learners are shy and afraid of making mistakes so there is no effort to try to use the target language in and out of class. The video recordings were the solution of the problems above and the problems were formulated as follows: can and to what extent video recording
more » ... the learners' speaking ability and how to teach speaking using video recording. This research was carried out with third grade learners of Nusantara PGRI Kediri University in East-Java Indonesia, to find out the effectiveness of video recording to improve learners' speaking ability. The numbers of third grade learners are 21 male and 73 are female and the female learners are usually shy and afraid of making mistakes. The data shows that the learners have positive attitude toward video recordings, especially the video recording help them to notice and identify their weaknesses in speaking without embarrassments.
doi:10.2991/iconelt-17.2018.5 fatcat:yc5uzrlbmvgshkwoar7dwgyvlq