STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE UTILIZATION OF YOUTUBE IN LEARNING ENGLISH

Selo Vani, T. Rike Widia (2023) STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE UTILIZATION OF YOUTUBE IN LEARNING ENGLISH. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Katolik Musi Charitas Palembang.

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Abstract

As a mean of communication, English has become the most important language. Due to its importance, the mastery of this language should be taken into account. Integrat-ing digital media platforms into teaching and learning activities is one of the alterna-tive ways to support students’ success in learning English. YouTube is a digital media platform that provides various educational contents for learning English. This research investigated the students’ attitude toward the utilization of YouTube in learning Eng-lish. It employed a quantitative approach in terms of surveys design. In this research, 150 students of Musi Charitas Catholic University were involved as participants. The data were collected through administering questionnaire and analyzed by using de-scriptive statistics of spss. The results showed 102 (68%) of the students have positive attitudes towards the utilization of YouTube in learning English. The students believe that using YouTube can help them to improve their English language skills because it provides a lot of English learning content which is similar with the English material. It is also supports students learning activities because it is effective to use. Therefore, the students also feel comfortable to learn English by using YouTube because YouTube can be accessed anytime and anywhere. This research hopefully will be useful for the teachers, the students, and future researchers in supporting the improvement of new insights and knowledge related to the research. Keywords: Attitude, YouTube, language, learning activity, communication.

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