PROMOTING YOUTUBE AS SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING MEDIA FOR EFL UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Self-directed learning (SDL) has gained popularity in today’s rapidly changing
world. Unfortunately, many studies revealed that students still have low SDL skills,
thus indicating low motivation to plan, execute, and monitor their learning process.
This study aims to investigate what type of learning strategies are practiced by EFL
undergraduate students when doing SDL via YouTube and how SDL was practiced
by EFL undergraduate students in the company of YouTube learning media, which
provides an abundance of videos for learning English. The data were collected
through a self-assessing questionnaire and semi-structured interviews with five EFL
undergraduate students. Through the combination of Strategy Inventory for
Language Learning (SILL) questionnaires and phenomenology analysis, this
research has categorized and coded the types of learning strategies and the steps
they take for SDL. The findings reveal that students use a variety of learning
strategies, including memory, cognitive, compensation