THE USE OF YOUTUBE VIDEO AS MEDIA IN MULTIGRADE ENGLISH DEPARTMENT STUDENTS TO IMPROVE CONVERSATIONAL COMPETENCE IN SPEAKING CLASS

Miller (1999:1) defines multigrade class as a class in which students of two or more adjacent grade levels are taught in one classroom by one teacher for most of the day. It is obviously hard to be imagined that a teacher teaches grade one, two, and three concurrently. This study also is highlighted of the using YouTube as a media where students can take any kind of references that can help them to improve their English skill is better. Such as; watching daily vlog from youtuber outside Indonesia, listening while singing English song by watching several lyrics video. weather news report, stand-up comedy, gossip news which telling about the Hollywood celebrity, etc. from those kinds of references that available in YouTube, it is hoped that students also can be more attracted to learn English clearly. Considering those all, teaching multigrade students possibly will not run well unless the students correspondingly add some varieties way to comprehend English easily. It needs something that make students are busy and focus on what will be learned and achieve later. Therefore, watching YouTube video is attempted in this study. This research belonged to qualitative research. The participants of the study in this research are eleven multigrade English students in speaking class who were taught by the researcher. The data of this study was taken from the students’ response. those are taken from the interview of each group through online interview. The study are undertaken for a month while teaching learning activities are committed twice a week, 90 minutes for each meeting. This study brings in a simple finding that the students of multigrade class can be formed well-enough as well as single-grade class, nevertheless it is unavoidable that in the process oftenly faced the obstacle, such as lower grade students who sulking, quarrelling, and lecturer also has to do extra effort to keep the learning process is on the proper track. This is also indicates that using YouTube video as a media is effective to be implemented on multigrade class with limited number of participants because the different result possibly emerges when there are more participants and more various grades of students. It is hoped that there will be another researcher can make further research to get deeper study about the topic in the same field in order to get more enlightenment result about YouTube as a media of learning especially in teaching multigrade English students. Keywords: Speaking c