Authors:
Asnawi Muslem
;
Bustami Usman
and
Arifin Syamaun
Affiliation:
Syiah Kuala University, Indonesia
Keyword(s):
Immersive strategy, youtube, student, English, Oral speaking skills
Abstract:
English language is one of the most dominant languages learned and used by people in this era for various purposes. To learn and master well the language, it needs students’ willingness and seriousness who wants to enhance their competence in English language. Many handicaps are faced by the students in Indonesia to learn and master the language such as; lack of exposure of the language, rich environment that is not supported and English language hold its status as a foreign language. However, there are many ways that can be done by students who want to improve their skill in English. For instance, students can go abroad where English is used as a media of communication for various purposes. They can also invite native speaker to Indonesia. However, these ways are high cost. The best alternative way to learn and master well the English language is learning through immersive strategy with media YouTube. It is friendly user and low cost. The objectives of this paper are to present the
potential strategy to master English well through immersive strategy with media YouTube among non-native students in Indonesia. In addition, it also discusses how this strategy helps students to master the target language easily and near-native like that has been proved in the previous studies conducted by the author. Besides, this paper also discusses the steps or procedures of implementing this strategy to empower students’ capacity in English competence to reach native-like among non-native students. Analyses of the findings and previous studies have proved that the use of media technology in learning English are quite helpful and effective. Therefore, immersive strategy with media YouTube helps low and high achievers acquire the English language easily without mediation in their first language. In short, by learning through this strategy students can master and communicate in English automatically and spontaneously
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