Using English video project assignment to assess students’ speaking skills at SMPN 22 Surabaya

Nowadays, the video is widely used in the English lesson. The teacher can use video as media and project in the teaching-learning process. Through a video project, the teacher can assess the students’ speaking skills. This study is aimed to examine the use of English video project assignment to assess students’ English speaking skills and the students’ perception toward the use of English video project assignment. This study was taken in SMPN 22 Surabaya at IX-E grade students. This study is descriptive qualitative research. The data is collected through classroom observation, documentation and interview. The researcher used two research instruments, checklist and interview guideline. The result of this study shows that the teacher use this video project to assess students’ speaking skill by giving instructions that the video content allows the students to do speaking as much as possible and make the assessment focus on speaking skills. Then, the teacher gives the students assessment in the final meeting or in summative evaluation aspect. It is also indicated from the teacher scoring rubric that the criteria of the speaking skills are: pronunciation, fluency, grammar, and comprehend. The teacher uses this video project assignment as portfolio evaluation, then the teacher implements the overview of evaluation and formative evaluation aspect. The students’ perceptions toward the use of English video project assignment to assess students’ speaking skills are interesting and useful. The students are interest because they can work outside the class and the video project is useful because they can learn any knowledge, especially in pronunciation