VIDEO RECORDING ASSIGNMENT ON ENGLISH FOR DAILY CONVERSATION CLASS: AN INVESTIGATION ON STUDENTS’ AFFECT

Abstract

Video recording assignment becomes one of necessary and beneficial efforts for enhancing students’ speaking ability. However, that attempt will be advantageous and will not waste the time if the students own positive respon toward them. Therefore, this research aims at investigating students’ affect toward video recording assignment on English for daily conversation class. This belongs to descriptive research. There were 78 students participated. The instruments used to collect the data were questionaire along with interview guide. The data got from the questionnaire were analyzed based on formula suggested by Heaton and Djemari et. All.  Meanwhile, the data got from interview guide were analyzed based on the theory suggested by Miles and Huberman. The finding of this research revealed that there were fifty seven or 73.07% students had strongly positive affect toward video recording assignment applied by the lecturer on English for daily conversation subject. It indicated that most of students like to do video recording assignment since it can increase their creativity and they have more time to speak. Moreover, it also can reduce their anxiety in speaking. It can be concluded that there is no psychological problem of the students to do video recording assignment. It means that video recording assignment can be applied by the lecturer in order to increase their speaking ability.