Abstract
As one of the most popular social media in this modern era, YouTube is also playing a role in education. Technology, which is part of student life, can offer useful feedback, especially in facilitating, increasing knowledge and English skills. An audio-visual model that can be accessed anywhere can make students feel more open about thoughts, opinions, questions, and be more comfortable and motivated in learning English. This article reports a qualitative study that finds out students' perceptions of English learning through YouTube are beneficial and help them learn English. 5 students who use the YouTube application as a media for learning English in SMK Negeri 17 participated in this study, and data were collected through interview-based on case study design.
 The results of this study find out all of the students have many benefits to improve their English skills, and very easy to access in almost every student's gadget and it can be used in every situation for help and motivated them to learn English. The students are only feeling the difficulty if the internet connection is not good. 
 All of the students are given positive responses about the use of YouTube application in learning English.
Highlights
In this modern era, technology becomes a part of a student's life
Students' perception of English learning through YouTube application in this study was obtained from interview
Because YouTube application is easy to use and the students can re-play the video until they understand "There are so many benefits; I understand more quickly, especially through videos so that I can re-play and share the videos with my friends, I can get more information, and I get the experience of people studying abroad about the differences in the language of those who studying in another country" (Q1S1) student 3 said that YouTube application can improve about listening skill by watching video with subtitle "The benefit is that I understand better about the listening, if I watch the video, I can read the subtitles and hear the audio how to pronounce it like that" (Q1S3)
Summary
Technology becomes a part of a student's life. Social media becomes the hottest topic for discussions because it can be used for searching some sources that Indonesian society accesses the most. 97.4 percent of Indonesians have access to accounts social media [34]. Social media becomes the hottest topic for discussions because it can be used for searching some sources that Indonesian society accesses the most. Learning is a communication process among students, educators, and teaching materials. Electronic learning systems or e-learning can be used as information technology media that are applied in the field of education in the form of virtual schools. Social media is recognized as learning and teaching tools. These tools facilitate discussion, participation, and the sharing of various forms of content (text, audio, video, and image). They have become an essential resource for students across all subjects, especially in learning language. YouTube is one of the social media and internet-based learning resources that can be integrated in learning that is sometimes considered difficult by students because of the burden of reading
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