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DOI:10.12691/lef-3-1-1
rarely asked students to do speaking when explaining students made series of videos – narrative and grammar
lessons in English. It could be said that teachers mostly videos as teaching and learning activities in the subject.
teach with printed text (PPT) and ask students to choose a, (5) Posttest: The same test given from the pretest was also
b, c, or d as the right answer. Because of this, they don't given to the students to track is there difference on their
use many other media or apps to teach English, except for scores after the intervention.
Zoom meetings and Google Forms.
The researcher hopes that this will help students feel
better about themselves, especially when speaking English, 3. Results and Analysis
by having them retell stories using different word
structures in the TikTok program. Storytelling with a From the results of the pre-test, we know that four
descriptive text theme is one of the English language students (20%) scored between 40 and 69. On the other
learning texts that clearly describes the qualities of hand, ten students (66%) got a score below 40. Two
something, whether it is a person, an animal, a place, a students, or 14%, made less than 20. As shown in the table
plant, or an inanimate object. This gives the reader clear below, the students' pre-test scores were based on how
information about the thing being described. Students will well they could tell short stories based on the descriptive
be asked to make video stories that show how creative texts they had read in class.
they are. Also, the researcher lets the students edit the
video of the story. Indirectly, students also practice Table 1.
writing, which they do when they talk. With the TikTok Score Pretest %
app, students can tell stories to improve their English 90-100 0 0.00
speaking and writing skills. 70-89 0 0.00
With this study, it sought to see the effectiveness of 40-69 4 20.00
using micro-videos through Tiktok Application in enhancing 20-39 10 66.00
the speaking and grammar skills of Criminology students 0-19 2 14.00
who are taking Foreign Language class. the following TOTAL 16 100.00
questions were answered in this study, 1. What were the
scores of the students before intervention? 2. Is there The researcher encourages students to try to create a
a significant difference between the scores of the creative video in the style of a short story about explaining
respondents before and after the intervention? the topic they want to talk about in depth through the
TikTok app based on the pre-test that the researcher
completed using the TikTok app. The table below displays
2. Method the post-test results. Two students, or 14 percent, got a
score of 90 or higher. This means that the students' scores
Single pre-experimental design was used in this study. went up because when the post-test was given, there were
It aims to establish a cause-and-effect relationship 5 students (33%) who scored above 70 and 9 students
between variables in a single group [8]. Finding out what (53%) who scored 40.
occurs when students study a foreign language online or
use the TikTok app to tell stories is the aim of this Table 2.
research. And researcher made the decision to employ Score Posttest %
classroom action research procedures. The 16 criminology 90-100 2 14.00
foreign language students who created storytelling and 70-89 5 33.00
grammar videos based on the descriptive writing they
40-69 8 45.00
performed with the TikTok app will be expected to reflect,
20-39 1 8.00
which means researcher became involved in teaching. In
this study, the researcher took on the role of a teacher by 0-19 0 0.00
conducting online lessons and using the Zoom meeting TOTAL 16 100.00
app to evaluate classroom scenarios.
Here are the steps to take when collecting data: Based on the post-test scores in Table 2, we can say that
(1) Observation: Researcher made observations to collect students have made a very big improvement. Some
data by looking directly at what students do and how they students get the best score, which is 95, and others get the
do it while they are learning. From observations, data will worst score, which is 33.
be gathered about how active and involved students are
when they are learning. (2) Prettest: The researcher gave a
test to see how well the students understand what they 4. Conclusion and Recommendation
have learned. Students took a pretest by telling a story
through a video on the TikTok app. From this test, we'll The major objective of the current study is to assess the
get information about what students have learned, effectiveness of the TikTok app as a teaching resource in
(3) FGD: Focus group discussion. The researcher gathered teaching English as a Foreign Language. The majority of
via Zoom some of the respondents and asked questions the respondents favored this method due to its novelty and
about their language learning experience to identify intriguing aspects, hence the evidence from this study
root cause of the language incompetence. (4). Tiktok generally points to positive feedback. In addition, using
videos: using their Tiktok videos with a hashtag TikTok is consistent with five of Gilmore's listed
#ForeignLanguageclass, the intervention took place where principles [3] for multimedia learning. As adherence to the
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