Palupi Artha Puspa, 2201418082 (2023) The Use of English Videos in Social Media for Pronunciation Learning: Students’ Perspective of SMAN 1 Kroya Grade 11. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

English videos have a significant impact on students' progress in understanding pronunciation because students tend to imitate when they are interested in a topic. They may be curious about the vocabulary they hear in videos or say themselves and decide to write it down in a book before matching it with the appropriate term in the English dictionary. A lot of content that has appeared lately, such as on Tiktok, Youtube, Instagram, etc., uses English words in their videos. So that other people follow this trend and not just a few of them imitate using English like native speakers. This research was conducted to find out perspectives on the use of English videos on social media in improving pronunciation skills at SMA Negeri 1 Kroya students and compare whether it was true that only using English videos on social media could improve their pronunciation skills. The design of this study is descriptive-qualitative, using an open-ended questionnaire, interviews with students and an English teacher. Eighteen Grade 11 students of SMA Negeri 1 Kroya became participants in this study. This study consists of five sections of students’ perspectives, namely students' interest in learning pronunciation in the English lesson, perspectives of the benefits of using social media, perspectives of the ease of using English videos on social media, difficulties in using English videos on social media, and students' attitudes in dealing with difficulties related to the use of Englishlanguage videos on social media. The results of this study are first, English videos can provide messages about pronunciation and it can get around time and space constraints. Second, English videos more practical and flexible that may have an impact on students' attitudes of English video aspects of SMA Negeri 1 Kroya Grade 11.

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