EXPLORING STUDENTS’ MOTIVATION IN SUBMITTING DIGITAL STORYTELLING TASKS ON YOUTUBE

Abstract

Motivation enhances the speed of work and performance of learning to achieve a
goal. The research is aimed at providing students with some tasks for motivating students
to engage in a range of digital story telling activities on YouTube. The tasks are designed
to explore and practise the skills in completing the tasks given at Speaking 3 subject. The
tasks are about digital story telling which means that the story telling was created through
YouTube as tool for submitting the tasks. The stories were built in or taken from the Internet
with some titles were Cinderella, Malin Kundang, and Rapunzel, the choice of the titles
based on students’ proposal when discussing together. The subjects were 23 students of
English Department in Rangkasbitung who took Speaking subject. The findings showed
that all students succeeded in creating content on YouTube about story telling. Each of
story has its own value or message that could be adopted to students’ life. The Finding of
the research were students have good motivation in completing the digital story telling in
term of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation such as challenging, curious, responsible, good
grade, satisfy, parents, friends, environment, and it was founded on interview session. To
make students good in completing tasks, they must be supported by lecture to make their
motivation keep growing up.