Developing Students’ English Skill Through Digital Video as Multimodal for Young Learners in Online Learning

Abstract

This study described EFL young learners how to develop their English using digital video as multimodal in online learning. Recently, all the processes of teaching-learning have been conducted in online learning mode. Therefore, technology has an important role to motivate students, especially young learners, to learn and improve their English skills. Using digital video can help learners to both interpreting and producing multimodal texts. It can also develop young learners for making meaning since they can watch something displayed in video using English. Digital video provides learners with imagery and audio-visual modes of representation beyond the linguistics mode for engaging young learners to learn English. The participants are twenty-four students in primary school conducting online learning in a primary school of Muhammadiyah 24 Surabaya. The instruments were observation sheet and rubric to analyze students’ multimodal composition. The results showed that by using digital video, the students could be able to write simple story and present their story. Although, they made mistakes in grammatical aspects, they could write comprehend story. It could be suggested that multimodal could be used in teaching and learning process to engage students’ motivation and competence.