The Advantages of Personal Documentation Video in Improving Students’ Speaking Skill for Presentation

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10.2991/assehr.k.201015.014How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Personal Documentation Video, Speaking, English

Abstract

Speaking is one of the most important skills in English. Speaking English in public is difficult for Indonesian students because English is learnt as foreign language. Speaking practice should be done continually and effectively. Personal presentation is used as a practice method for students to be able to speak in public. By combining digital technology and education, the objectives of this study are (1) classifying the time allotment of personal documentation video done by students; (2) describing the topics of personal documentation video done by students; (3) describing the speaking problems faced by students; and (4) classifying the advantages of students by composing personal documentation video. This descriptive qualitative study analyzed data in the form of speaking recorded in video projects done by students and interviewed result with the students. After classifying the data based on the duration of the videos, it was found that there are 21 videos (25,30%) which have duration less than 7 minutes, 52 videos (62,65%) which fulfill the duration requirement in 7 – 10 minutes, and there are 10 videos (12,05%) which have more than 10 minutes duration. It shows students’ vocabulary mastery in describing something. The common topics used by students in the project were hometown, hobbies, describing things, and tourism or travel experiences. This study found that the common problem in speaking is the lack of confidence caused by the lack of vocabulary, grammar, fluency and pronunciation. This study also finds the advantages of students’ developments in speaking skill for presentation after composing personal documentation video project.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Madya Giri Aditama
AU  - Dwi Haryanti
AU  - Musiman
AU  - Fitria Wulan Sari
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/10/15
TI  - The Advantages of Personal Documentation Video in Improving Students’ Speaking Skill for Presentation
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th Progressive and Fun Education International Conference (PFEIC 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 88
EP  - 94
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201015.014
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201015.014
ID  - Aditama2020
ER  -