Self oriented learning of pronunciation through Youtube videos : a description of students’ learning experience and pronunciation improvement

Hidayatulloh, Ahmad Irsyad (2022) Self oriented learning of pronunciation through Youtube videos : a description of students’ learning experience and pronunciation improvement. Undergraduate (S1) thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Walisongo Semarang.

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Abstract

This thesis aimed to investigate the learning experience and pronunciation improvement of students who engaged in their self-oriented learning. The participants were eight students of fourth semester of English Education Department of Universitas Islam Negeri Walisongo in the year 2021/2022. This study was a descriptive qualitative study in which the main data were obtained from interviews. The data analyses in this study includes the stages of data reduction, data display, and drawing conclusions. This study concludes that the students’ experience on self-oriented learning showed aspects in pronunciation improvement that is listening carefully and practice such as imitating or shadowing. Moreover, the preferred accent affected the participants on choosing video contents. The participants also have difficulty in comprehension and producing of the English sounds. Furthermore, the participants need other tools such as U-dictionary apps, Cambridge dictionary etc. The participants’ pronunciation improvement is just a little bit. The significance improvement is on their accent and intonation. The other parts of pronunciation such as connected speech, spelling and word stress just improved barely.

Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate (S1))
Uncontrolled Keywords: Self-oriented learning; Pronunciation; YouTube; Learning experience
Subjects: 300 Social sciences > 370 Education > 371 School management; special education > 371.3 Metode, kegiatan belajar mengajar; metode pembelajaran
400 Language > 420 English and Old English
Divisions: Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan > 88203 - Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Chantika Khoirunnisaa
Date Deposited: 26 Oct 2022 06:17
Last Modified: 26 Oct 2022 09:15
URI: https://eprints.walisongo.ac.id/id/eprint/17618

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