EXPLORING ENGLISH SUBTITLES ON YOUTUBE VIDEO FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) IN STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION

BAHTIAR, BAHTIAR (2023) EXPLORING ENGLISH SUBTITLES ON YOUTUBE VIDEO FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) IN STUDENTS’ LISTENING COMPREHENSION. Undergraduate thesis, UIN KH ACHMAD SHIDDIQ JEMBER.

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ABSTRACT
Mohammad Ilham Bahtiar, 2022: Exploring English Subtitles on YouTube Video for The Enhancement of English As A Foreign Language (EFL) in Students’ Listening Comprehension
Keywords: English Subtitle on YouTube Video, Students’ Listening Comprehension
Watching English videos through YouTube can be considered a powerful and popular tool dealing with teaching and learning English as a foreign language. Captions and subtitles in English videos as a form of scaffolding for audiovisual materials have gained much attention in foreign language (FL) learning in recent years and various studies report their positive effects on learners’ listening comprehension. However, few attempts have been made to investigate how the use of English subtitles in YouTube Video in teaching learning in English skills specifically affects the listening process. Therefore, this study explores English Subtitle on YouTube Video that can be implemented in building on students’ listening comprehension.
This study aims to answer a research question “Do the students comprehend listening activity through English Subtitling in YouTube Video achieve better than those learning the same skill through YouTube Videos without English Subtitle?”
The objective of the research is to measure the effect of English Subtitles on YouTube Video as learning media on students’ listening comprehension at 8th-grade students of MTs Nurul Mukmin, Jatiroto, Jember in the academic year 2022/2023.
The researcher used a quantitative approach. A quasi-experimental with nonequivalent control group design was employed in this study, the researcher used two classes for the study, the experimental class, and the control class, while the control class was taught by using YouTube Video without subtitles, and the experimental class was taught by using YouTube video with English subtitles.
After conducting the research, the researcher was able to find the differences in the results between the experimental class and the control class. The SPSS data of t-tes in conducted to determine whether the two sample groups had significant differences on the average or not. Independent sample t-test was conducted by testing the post-test data of the experimental class and the control class.
The sig. (2-tailed) obtained from the post-test results between the experimental class and control class was 0.00 It revealed that the result of Sig. (2-tailed) was < 0.05. From the data presented, it can be concluded that the alternative Hypothesis (Ha) is accepted which means there is an effect of English Subtitles on YouTube Video to students’ listening comprehension.
In the end, the researcher calculated that the students who comprehend listening activity through English Subtitling in YouTube Video achieve better than those learning the same skill through YouTube Videos without English subtitles. Overall, the use of English subtitles in YouTube videos on EFL students’ listening comprehension demonstrated great potential, engaged students in better understanding on English learning activities, especially in listening comprehension.

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