Speaking is one of the key in English communication. As one of the language skills, the students should mastery in speaking English. The students face difficulties such as psychological factors which give effect students speaking skills, such as getting afraid, shame, nervous, and lack of motivation. The students needs more practice to improve speaking skill. One of the alternative teaching technique is the implementation of a video blog. By using this technique the students have a chance to explore their ability without any pressure to speak. This study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of video blogs. The vlog teaching method in this research has given students chance to speak confidently which led them to the speaking score increase.
This study used true-experimental design that belongs to quantitative approach. The researcher applied the vlog teaching method to the treatment class for three meetings. The population of this study was tenth grade students of MA Nahdlatul Ulama Mranggen. The sample of the study was X-MIA-A and X-MIA-B . The instrument used for this research in pre-test and post-test was an oral test by using instruction. In this study, the researcher conducted -step of research there were: pre-test, treatment and post-test.
The finding of the study showed there was different score of pretest and postest. Based on the result of t-test calculation shows that is higher than (6.71 2.00). It means that there are differences in the post-test average score between experimental which has been taught by using VLOG and control group which has taught without using VLOG. So, it can be concluded that using VLOG to teach recount text speaking is effective.
The implications of this study are: (1) video blog can be used by the teachers as the alternative technique in teaching speaking English (2) the vlog with teachers’ guidance could help students increase their speaking score.