One of the impacts of technology development is the spread of digital
learning. Informal Digital Learning of English is considered to be effective in EFL
learners’ pronunciation practice. Several applications are suitable for pronunciation
learning, especially YouTube. The aim of this research is to know how listening to
and viewing YouTube videos in extramural IDLE activity could facilitate EFL
learners’ pronunciation. Moreover, this research purpose is to know the impact of
listening to and viewing YouTube videos towards EFL learners’ pronunciation.
This study explores informal digital learning activity with YouTube as the learning
media. The participants were three teenagers aged 16-18 who watched Johnny’s
Communication Center videos and received impacts toward their pronunciation.
This study applied a narrative inquiry approach, and the data were gathered from
semi-structured interviews and artifacts collected from the participants’ extramural
IDLE activity. The result of this study shows that listening to and viewing YouTube
videos as learning media in extramural IDLE activity could facilitate EFL learners’
pronunciation by providing learners with several features both from YouTube and
other than YouTube that helped the participants whenever they had problems
regarding the pronunciation learning process. Likewise, listening to and viewing
YouTube videos give several impacts to EFL student’s pronunciation which
covered clarity and accuracy, vowels, consonants, linking words, vocal features,
and vocal quality.
