F. The significance of the study
In the end of this study, the researcher hoped that this study would give a significant contribution for English teacher, students, or the readers in the English
teaching and learning process. 1. For the students, it would be an effort to improve their speaking skills and also
their learning motivation. The application of using videos as learning media in teaching speaking is expected to be one of the ways to develop their
communicative competence to face the global communication. 2. For English teachers, it would be a broad opportunity to improve the quality of
English teaching and learning process. The implementation of using videos as learning media is expected to be continuously performed to create fun and
enjoyable atmosphere in the English teaching and learning process and to provide appropriate models of English to improve students’ speaking skills.
3. For English Department of State University of Yogyakarta, it can be used as a research reference for other researchers who have similar topic and purpose.
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CHAPTER II LITERATURE REVIEW AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
This chapter covers some theories as the basis of the discussions. It is aimed at gaining more understanding about the topic of the research study. The discussions
in this chapter are some relevant theories of the study, conceptual framework focusing on the problems and solutions to improving students’ speaking skills
through the use of video.
A. Literature Review
1. The Nature of Teaching Speaking
a. Speaking
There are many definitions of speaking that have been proposed by some
experts in language learning.
Brown 2001: 267 cites that when someone can speak a language it means that he can carry on a conversation reasonably competently. In addition, he states that
the benchmark of successful acquisition of language is almost always the demonstration of an ability to accomplish pragmatic goals through an interactive
discourse with other language speakers. Nawshin 2009: 5-6 states that speaking is a productive skill. There are two
important aspects of speaking. They are accuracy and fluency. Accuracy is the extent to which students’ speech matches what people actually say when they use the target
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