Investigation of Students' Japanese Language Communication Competence Through Narrative Monologue Videos
Keywords:
video, monologue, narrative, Japanese languageAbstract
The task of making a narrative monologue video is one of the strategies to improve students' performance and communication competence. Students present a monologue containing a narrative of topics that have been studied in the Marugoto A2B1 book through video recordings. This study uses a qualitative participatory methodology, with participants being fourth semester students of the 2024/2025 academic year of the Japanese Language Education study program, Riau University. The assessment of the monologue video includes the components of pronunciation, expression, fluency, grammar, and content. The methodology used is Classroom Action Research (CAR). The learning stages using Marugoto A2B1 can prepare linguistic competence and knowledge of the topic well. Writing a monologue script makes students understand grammar and concepts better. Narrative monologue can help students to arrange the ideas about a certain activity or thing. The task of making those narrative videos can support students in reducing nervousness, and displaying more confident performance. In other words, narrative monologue videos can comprehensively improve students' cognitive, affective, and psychomotor aspects in Japanese language communication.