Students’ Perceptions on the Impact of Watching English Video Blog (Vlog) on Speaking Skills

The purposes of this research is to investigate students’ perceptions on the use of watching English vlog as learning media to improve their speaking skills and to identify aspects of speaking skills perceived by them through watching English vlog. This research used qualitative method together with purposive sampling technique to recruit the participants. The samples were five PBI’s students. The results showed that the use of watching vlog as learning media have a positive perceptions, and a preferable learning media to improve speaking skill. Vlog not only effective to improve speaking skill, but also help them to improve confidence by watching vlog. Furthermore, watching vlog also has a positive impact to enrich vocabulary, improve pronunciation, become fluent in speaking. Based on these results, it can be concluded that watching vlog has positively impact on improving students' speaking skills.