Students' Perception of the Use of Youtube as a Learning Media for Enhancing Listening Skills

Abstract

This study investigated students’ perceptions of using YouTube as a learning medium for enhancing listening skills in English language education. This study used a quantitative approach, utilizing a structured questionnaire adapted from previous research from Fleck et al. (2014) to collect data from English Language Education students at a private university in Yogyakarta. There have been previous studies that have discussed this, but most of them used high school students as participants, while this study used college students as participants. Previous studies also used a fairly long method where the treatment was given using the pre-test and post-test methods, while this study purely asked respondents' perceptions about their feelings when learning using YouTube media. Two You Tube videos were used in the classroom design: What is climate change? By Environment and Climate Change Canada and How to improve your listening skills by British Council. A total of 110 participants joined the research and their answers were analyzed descriptively. The results showed that the majority of students considered YouTube as a useful resource for learning. Key findings indicated that students appreciated that YouTube was beneficial for their learning (40.45%). Another finding shows that YouTube also has a dual role in education, specifically enjoyable (52.5%) and helpful for academic learning (47.5%). Although overall perceptions were positive, the negative perceptions such as distractions (40.5%) and incomplete engagement (a time to nap) with video content were noted (28.45%). This study describe students' perceptions of using YouTube to improve listening skills. This study is important to knowing how students feel about using YouTube in their learning process and their overall experiences using YouTube.