THE USE OF YOUTUBE AS THE INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA IN SPEAKING ENGLISH FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE (EFL) LEARNERS: STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

In this modern era, with increasingly sophisticated technology, everyone must participate in developing this technology to be more practical and useful, especially in online-based learning media. Furthermore, one of the media-based learning tools that can help students learn English is using YouTube. Many teachers and students use YouTube to help them in the teaching and learning process (Irawan, 2022). Then, everyone can utilize YouTube as the instructional medium for Speaking skills. Speaking is now the main focus of many language programs as the demand for fluency in English increases. However, students must fully utilize all their strengths in learning and increasing speaking skills using YouTube. Hence, this study aims to determine the strengths and weaknesses of using YouTube as the instructional medium in EFL Speaking learning. The research design of this study was categorized into mix-methods, which is a step in the research method that incorporates qualitative and quantitative research approaches. So, the researcher used random sampling to acquire the sample and for the technique of the data collecting used questionnaire and unstructured interview. The findings present that students' perceptions through YouTube provide many advantages in learning English speaking. Still, besides that, there are also many challenges and weaknesses in using YouTube as the instructional medium for Speaking EFL learners. However, many challenges and weaknesses exist in using YouTube as the instructional medium for Speaking EFL learners.