The ability in to speak English in the public place being a scourge for students due to minimize the anxiety because of lack of speaking practice in their life, so that an effective media is needed to decrease the students’ anxiety in speaking by making video blog (VLOG) . The aims of this study are to minimize students’ anxiety in public speaking that focus on descriptive text teaching materials, and to improve students’ speaking skills in the context of description through VLOG media. The subjects in this study is the student of DIII Computer Engineering at the Polytechnic of Harapan Bersama Tegal with a qualitative descriptive research approach by using the Classroom Action Research (CAR) method in two cycles, each of the cycle consists of four stages of planning, implementation, observation, and reflection. The data collection method in this study is to use a questionnaire, interview, observation, and reflection in accordance with the Action Research guidelines. The finding showed that the average of pre test score was only 52.5, after treating by video blog it was improved to 74.5 in cycle 1, then it improved more in cycle 2 and reached 87.3. So, it improved 34.8 point from pre test to the post test. In line with the data, designing video blog is effective to minimize students’ anxiety in teaching spoken descriptive test and it works to improve the students speaking skill. Moreover, students also get their own motivation to speak confidently in the public place. Some aspects that improved are fluency, pronunciation, vocabulary items and content. As the final result, it can be inferred that making video blog minimize students’ anxiety in speaking and it improves students’ speaking performance.

<p>The use of appropriate media in the learning and teaching process especially in teaching speaking is quite important for the lecturers to have students' the best result. The video blog (Vlog) is one of the media that commonly used by lecturers in teaching speaking English to gain students' motivation in speaking. The main aim of this study is to investigate the lecturer's strategy in implementing video blog as a media in teaching speaking. Besides, it is also to identify the difficulties of vlog implementation in teaching speaking. To achieve the objectives, the descriptive qualitative approach in the form of a case study was chosen as the method of the research. Observation and interview were collected as the data to the class 2A, a second-semester student of Computer Engineering Students of Politeknik Harapan Bersama, Tegal, Indonesia. The data from classroom observation were obtained from activity portrait, video recording, students and lecturers' notes, and interview during observation. The data analysis presented by using descriptive explanation, and the data result from lecturers' interview were summarized by using the table and described based on the phenomenon that found during the observation. The finding of data showed that the lecturer applied task-based learning to implement vlog in speaking skill. The lecturers did not only show the vlog to the students in teaching speaking as the media but also asked them to make it by their selves and uploaded it to the YouTube Channel as the new references of English vlog. Lecturers began the learning and teaching process with pre tasks: introduction, review to the previous material; then continued to the main tasks: showing the model/media, giving task, and discussion; and closed by the post-task: evaluation and feedback. Moreover, the difficulties faced by the lecturers in implementing vlog in teaching speaking were a distinct range of students' English scores especially in speaking, the improper gadget that owns by the students’ to make the video blog, and lack of students’ creativity in building the video blog content to make it interesting to be watched. In line with the previous studies, which stated that video blog is interesting and it can improve students' speaking skill effectively.</p>

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The teaching and learning process during the pandemic requires adjustments and the use of adequate learning alternatives in providing material to students in brave classes. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of using the ekuliah website as a learning medium for third semester students in the D-III Accounting study program at Politeknik Harapan Bersama in studying descriptive text material during the COVID-19 pandemic situation. This research is a true experimental study that uses two class groups as research objects. Pre-test was given to both class groups in order to determine the initial competencies possessed by students. The two class groups were then taught descriptive text material with different treatments. The treatment was carried out using the conventional method for the comparison class group and the use of the ekuliah website media for the experimental class group. After the post-test was held at the end of the treatment, the test results experienced a significant increase in the average score for the comparison class group of 2.4 points (mean of pre-test score was 72.6 and post-test was 75) and 6.9 points (mean of pre-test score was 76 and post-test was 82.9) for the experimental class. It can be said that learning descriptive text material for third semester students of the D-III Accounting Study Program at Politeknik Harapan Bersama using the ekuliah website is effective in improving learning outcomes.