Supporting Student’s English Speaking Achievement Using Video

Abstract

<p>The importance of English as a Second or Foreign language (ESL or EFL), the teaching of EFL speaking has been deemed important in the Indonesian context. As a common problem was occurred in a speaking class is that teachers frequently feel it difficult to involve students in the speaking activities. In fact, English teachers should work hard to attract the students to speak a lot in the class. It occurs because many EFL learners have such personality problems, for instance they are not confident, reluctant, and afraid of practicing and using their English.</p>The implementation of the use of video as teaching media in speaking class can cover some procedures into three main phases: The first phase is pre-teaching. The second phase is whilst-teaching. The third phase is post-teaching. Based on the findings, it is concluded that the use of video as teaching media can be one of the solutions to improve not only the students’ speaking skills but also the their’ positive attitude in the teaching of speaking. Therefore, English teachers are suggested to use the video as teaching media to teach their students in speaking class and it is also possible to teach other language skills or components. The limitation of this research was about the kind of video. Since in this research the researcher used the instructional video, for other researchers are suggested to use other kinds of videos which are not used for instructional objectives.