Using Video YouTube Channel “Linguamarina” in Improving Students’ Speaking Skill at Junior High School.

This paper focus to find out the improvement in speaking skills from the using video YouTube channel from Linguamarina as the material in teaching speaking. In this study, using classroom action research. This research consists of two cycles. There are two kinds of data in this research, namely quantitative data and qualitative data. Whereas, the quantitative data taken from pre-test, post-test I, and post-test II. Then the qualitative data taken from the interviews, observations, notebooks and documentation. The sample of this study were VII-2 class students at SMP Swasta Daerah Sei Bejangkar, and the total sample in class VII-2 were 30 students. The findings show that their speaking skills increase in each cycle, it was showed from the result average among pre-test (48), post-test in cycle I (67,6) and post-test in cycle II (73), and the researcher found improvement in five aspect in speaking. For grammar 2.2 to 3.8, for fluency 2.2 to 3.6, for pronunciation 2.5 to 3.2, for vocabulary 2.4 to 3.9, and for comprehension 2.7 to 3.6. From qualitative data shows that the use of Linguamarina videos not only improves students' speaking skills but also increases students' spirit, confidence and enthusiasm in learning English. The findings are useful for teachers in junior high school to teach students in understand more effective ways to improve the speaking skills of English learning through technological developments by utilizing social media YouTube