Exploring The Benefits Of Self-Video Recording In Alleviating Students’ Speaking Challenges

Video recording offer benefits for students to solve speaking problems. The aim of this study is to identify how self-video recording contributes in alleviating students speaking challenges. The participants of this study are six English students at the Islamic state university of Ar-Raniry who have done self-video recordings. In this research, the researcher used the qualitative descriptive method and the sample was chosen by purposive sampling to fulfill specific criteria. The researcher used the interview to assess speaking difficulties, and identify how self-video recording aided the students in alleviating their speaking challenges. In this research, he also highlights the speaking difficulties encountered by students which mainly caused by three issues: lack of English proficiency, no speaking partner, and psychological factors. The researcher discovered that using self-video recording has a strong potential to assist students with psychological factors and no speaking partner problems. It was found that self-video recording offer benefits as a medium to practice English, make students less nervous, boost confidence, and provide self-evaluation to learn from mistakes.