STUDENTS' PERCEPTION TOWARD VIDEO MAKING TASK IN ENGLISH TO IMPROVING STUDENTS’ SPEAKING SKILLS A STUDY AT DIPA MAKASSAR UNIVERSITY
Techniques that teachers can use to improve students' speaking skills and minimize student errors are now
becoming prevalent. In a modern era, teachers usually combine their lessons with technological tools to improve
students' language skills. This study discuses students’ perception about video making task in improving students
speaking skills. The type of research design is mixed method. The population of this research were 219 from
Systems Information Department students, Dipa Makassar University and 89 students were selected as the sample.
The data collection used questionnaire distribution by Google Form and interview. The purpose of this research
was to explore the implementation and the effect of video making task also to determine students’ perception of
the learning process in their courses by using video making task in improving their speaking skills. The result of
this research indicated that the implementation of video making task in improving students speaking skills
encountered several difficulties such as the aspects of students' motivation in video making task, students'
experienced differences from preparing courses, students' difficulties in pronunciation and the difficulties that
influential to students' self-study and self-correction and students have positive perceptions toward video making
task in improving their speaking skills.
Perception, Speaking Skills, Video, Effect, Improve