VLOGGING PROJECT FOR ENGLISH ONLINE LEARNING: THE STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION

Abstract

Young people nowadays are really attached to technology, internet, and social media. There are no days without updating status, uploading images, and commenting on social media. One of the activities that are commonly conducted by them is vlogging, which stands for video blogging, a type of interactive social media to share daily activities. As teachers, we should see this type of activity as one of the alternative methods to encourage students, specifically the young adult learners, to study English in this emergency remote learning era. Due to the nature of this method, this survey research aimed at finding out the students’ perception on the use of vlogging for english online learning. It was conducted to 174 students of Nursing Department at Poltekkes Kemenkes Malang. An online questionnaire was administered to collect the data from the respondents and they were presented in the percentage data and analyzed using descriptive explanation. The result showed that the students had positive perception toward the use of this method. Based on this result, teachers should consider to employ this method to teach English online to increase students’ level of participation in online English learning.