DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILL THROUGH VIDEO AS A MEDIA FOR THE FIRST SEMESTER OF BUSSINESS ADMINISTRATION STUDENTS PROGRAM IN UNISBA BLITAR (THE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF BALITAR BLITAR)

Abstract

Speaking is one kind of the communications which is transferring and receiving people knowledge or thought. It is known as Productive Skills. The kinds of the speaking activities are describing things or people, retelling the story, dialogue or conversation, giving opinion, giving suggestions etc. In this research, the writer focused on composing and practicing the conversation in front of the class. The purpose of this study is to improve the students’ speaking skill for the first semester of business administration study program in UNISBA Blitar which consists of 21 students due to the students’ speaking skill is not as expected. So, the researcher and the teacher tried to solve the problem with using the video English in the teaching and learning speaking in this class. The reasons of the using the video is by using the video English as a media, the students could listen and see the conversation from the native speakers directly. It makes the students easy to understand how to imitate the language that the native speakers used. The conclusions of the study is related to weakness, the strength and the students’ improvement in speaking. The weaknesses are the students still produce unacceptable grammar and produce unexpected pronunciation. The strengths are all of the students look very confident, they didn’t afraid in practice speaking and the students’ speaking skill improved. The research only conducted in one cycle, because students’ speaking skill improve based on the standard of the criteria. The standard of criteria of students speaking skill is value 65 (C=3). The improvement in account about 76.19 %, because 16 students got improvement skill than before implementation and totally 100 % or all of the students reach the standard of criteria. So, the use of video to improve students’ speaking skill is higly recommended for the teacher.Key Words: English Video, Youtube media and Speaking skill