THE USE OF YOUTUBE IN IMPROVING THE SPEAKING SKILLS OF EFL HIGHER EDUCATION STUDENTS

Abstract

Mastering speaking skills is hard since English is a foreign language in Indonesia. Plenty of problems are faced by both teachers and students. In response to the difficulty in mastering speaking skills, teachers are required to create fun and easy methods in improving students’ speaking abilities. Many studies have been conducted to solve this problem, one of them being by using YouTube as a technology development. This study aims to investigate how far the use of YouTube can improve speaking ability among EFL higher education students and to find the most affected components in their speaking skills. The result showed that the use of the YouTube platform gave a positive impact on improving the EFL students’ skills in speaking.