STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION ON USING VIDEO TO IMPROVE THE WRITING LITERACY

Abstract

Video serves picture, motion and audio at the same time and gives listeners multiple forms of comprehensible input. Using video for teaching writing seemed to be more interesting and fun. This study aims to analyse students’ perception on the video used by English teacher to improve writing literacy. This study was quantitative research involving 25 students as the sample. The instrument used was a questionnaire constructed based on the theories of components of perception and the advantages of video as instructional media in English learning. The questionnaire consisted of 15 items using the Likert Scale (strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree). Data analysis showed that students’ perception on using video to improve writing literacy was strongly agreed (14%) and agree (73%) meaning that students are welcome and feel very optimistic and highly motivated to the video used to improve writing literacy