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Teachers have to prepare the classroom environment and video equipment so that the teaching-learning process can run well. Teachers also have to stimulate
students’ pre-existing knowledge before he turns on the videos in order to make the students ready in following the lesson.
Activity during viewing means the activities in the process of learning using videos. Teachers can give students a focus viewing assignment in order to
help the students in understanding the topics of the video. Teachers can sometimes use one short segment at a time and direct the learning experience to encourage
students’ awareness of production values and techniques. When the topic or content of the video is quite difficult for the students, teachers can press “pause”
often to help students in understanding about what is discussed in the videos. Other activities that can be used are viewing videos with the sound off to identify
students’ prior knowledge or asses what they have learned by having them provide their own narration. Teachers can use videos without the picture to make
the students create their own visual images which later will be compared to the video images. To give the students a chance to focus on the material, teachers can
view the videos twice. Teachers can sometimes do closed-captioning as a reading reinforcement. All the activities during viewing try to make the students active in
participating in the process of learning. Activities after viewing means the activities after the students watch the
videos. Teachers can ask the students to ask their friends about the program has been viewed in order to practice their speaking skill and also their understanding
about the content of the videos or teachers can ask them to write anything comes
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in their mind about the program in a limited time, for instance only two minutes. To develop their writing skill, the students have to write a paragraph about the
topic in the videos. Teachers can also use jigsaw activity to activate their mind about many topics which can be raised after watching the video; they can ask
students to find solution for the problem based on the content in a video and explain the solution. Those three parts of activities using videos helps students to
reach the learning goal. It gives the students meaningful learning.
B. Theoretical Framework
Perception is an important factor that influences successful learning since it influences someone’s motivation to learn and behavior or attitudes. In order to
answer the first research question, namely students’ perception on the use of videos in learning English, the researcher employed four theories. They are theory
of perception, theory of motivation, theory of Piaget’s cognitive development, and theory of learning English using videos.
The researcher employed the theory of perception in order to know what exactly perception is, and the factors that cause a student to have a certain
perception such as presage, process and product. Knowing that perception can influence students’ motivation in learning, therefore the researcher employed the
theory of motivation which helps the researcher to know the definition of motivation, the importance of motivation and the relation among attitudes,
perception and motivation. The researcher also employed the theory of Piaget’s cognitive development. She employed the formal operational stage from this
theory to recognize the needs of second grade Senior High School students on
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their learning based on their age. The researcher also employed the theory of learning English using videos in order to recognize the activities that are used in
learning using videos and the advantages and disadvantages of using videos in English learning. It also helps the researcher to find out whether the use of videos
can fulfill students’ needs or not. The result of students’ perception on the use of videos in learning English
can be positive or negative. Based on the theories above, if most of students’ needs in learning can be fulfilled by the use of videos in their English learning, it
can lead them to have positive behavior toward the learning, which later leads them to have positive perception. On the other hand, if only few of students’
needs in learning are fulfilled by the use of videos in their English learning, it can lead them to have negative behavior toward the learning, which later leads them to
have negative perception. Researching second grade Senior High School students’ perception is
important. The results of the research can be used to improve the quality of the use of videos in English learning. It can also encourage other schools to use
videos in their English teaching-learning activities. There are two research questions in this research. The first research
question is students’ perception on the use of videos in their English teaching- learning activities. In order to find out the answer, the researcher employed a class
observation, a questionnaire, and an interview. The results of the observation, the questionnaire, and the interview then are analyzed, interpreted and written in
paragraphs.
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The second research question is students’ recommendations to the use of videos in order to improve and to maximize the use of videos in their teaching-
learning process. In order to obtain the answer, the researcher observed the teaching and learning process, and interviewed some students. The results of the
observation and the interview then were analyzed, interpreted and written in paragraphs.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the methodology of this research. The methodology is divided into six parts; they are research method, research participants, research
instruments, data gathering technique, data analysis technique, and research procedures.
A. Research Method
In order to answer the research questions stated in chapter one, the researcher employed a survey research. According to Groves, Fowler, Couper,
Lepkowski, Singer, and Tourangean 2004a: 2, “a survey is one of the most methods that is commonly used in the social sciences. Its aim is to understand the
social phenomena, the societies work and also to test theories of behavior.” It means that a survey research is a research that is used to understand the human
behavior and the characteristics of the target people. Survey research was best applied in this research since this research was aimed to find out the students’
perception on the use of videos in English learning and students’ recommendation to improve and to maximize the use of videos in English learning.
In a survey research, the data is gathered by observing the human behavior, interviewing the target people and recording their answers Groves et
al., 2004b: 3. According to Trochim 2006, in a survey research, the researcher can also distribute questionnaire to gather the data. Since survey research uses
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human experience to be observed, the results obtained in this research are in the form of words rather than numbers.
B. Research Participants
The target population of this research was the second grade of senior high school students of SMK Negeri 2 Depok, Yogyakarta. However, since it would not
be possible to survey the entire population of the students, a small group of students was taken to be a representative of the population selected. The research
participants were the second grade of Teknik Komputer Jaringan students of SMK Negeri 2 Depok, Yogyakarta. of academic year 20072008. This class was chosen
because it was accessible for conducting the research and there was time suitability between the schedule of the English lesson and the researcher.
The total number of students in Teknik Komputer Jaringan class was thirty two students. However, because of some reasons such as the students were absent
when the research was conducted, the number of the students was not the same as it was planned. From thirty-two students, the researcher took six students to be
interviewed.
C. Research Instruments
The research used three instruments to gather data. The instruments were an observation checklist, a questionnaire, and an interview. The instruments were
used to obtain reliable data and also to make the researcher easier in gathering the data in order to answer the research questions in the problem formulation.
