STUDENTS' PERCEPTION ON THE USE OF INSTAGRAM VLOG IN ENGLISH SPEAKING CLASSROOM

The purpose of the research is to find out students‟ perception toward Instagram Vlog in English Speaking classroom. Since University students had own difficulties in learning speaking skill, such as lack of vocabulary, grammatical structure and pronouncing the words in English. The method used in this research is a statistics descriptive analysis. The instrument used to collect the data is a questionnaire. The population of the research is all of fifth semester students of English Study Program at Baturaja University. The researcher used five points of Likert scale for analyzing the data from questionnaire data. Based on the result of the research, the research findings showed positive perception from the students toward the use of instagram vlog in improving their English speaking skill. The students agree that learning English speaking skill through instagram vlog is interesting thing because the use of instagram vlog makes their speaking experience more interesting (4.44), helps their grammar accuracy (4.00), find their weaknesses in English speaking skill (4.48), and learn to use their mobile for the beneficial activity (4.69). In conclusion, according to the average score of
the questionnaire 3.26, it is classified as agree. It shows that the students have positive perceptions on the use of instagram vlog toward English speaking classroom.