showing what need to say but it is also showing how to say it in particular situations. Video also affects students’ attention span. Teaching speaking
using videos will be more effective to catch students’ attention than just listening to the teacher’s speech for a longer time.
After considering the problems found and the advantages of using videos, the researcher found it necessary to conduct a research on
improving students’ speaking by using video clips. It is expected that it could help to improve students’ motivation to learn the speaking skill.
B. Identification of the Problem
There are some problems found by the researcher during his observation. The problems found are related to the students, teachers’
teaching method, and media used in the English class. The problems are as follow.
The first problems are related to the students. During his observation, the researcher found that some of the students did not pay
attention to the teacher’s explanation. The students from the back row made noises when the lesson in progress. They talked to each other while
their teacher was explaining the lesson to them. The researcher also saw that some of the students just looking outside the class and there were
students who just drew pictures or did homework from another subject. Then, from his observation, the researcher saw that a number of students
had low self- confidence when they were asked to speak in front of the class. They did not know what to say and how to express their ideas in
English. This happened because they lacked the knowledge of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation.
The next problems are related to the method used by the English teacher. There was more speech by the teacher. The teacher was also more
dominant in explaining the materials. She did not give her students opportunities to be involved during the explanation. The English teacher
seldom asked some questions related to the materials to the students. She also seldom asked her students to repeat after her to say new vocabularies
or English expressions. It showed that the teacher’s method was still more teacher-centered than learner-centered. This caused boredom and the
students could not pay their attention to the teacher for a long time, so the explanation was not effective. Then, the researcher also found that the
speaking class was dominated by theories rather than practices to speak. When the students were asked to share ideas, they still had difficulties
because they lacked of practices. The last problem is related to the teaching media. Most of the
teaching media found in the school are visual media. There are fewer audio or audiovisual media. The teacher also seldom used media in the
teaching and learning process. She just explained the lesson using the textbook and it was clearly seen that her students felt bored during the
lesson. This also affected the effectiveness of her teaching especially when the materials needed actual objects as the examples.
C. Limitation of the Problem
