Filipino Students’ Vlogging Experiences: Insights on English-speaking Skills Development

The need to develop students' English-speaking skills continues to be relevant but with the COVID-19 pandemic, students' speaking skills could have suffered due to mandatory limitations on face-to-face interactions.Instead of face-to-face interactions, students are actively involved in digital expression like vlogging.This study delves into how this experience has enhanced their development of Englishspeaking skills.Toward this end, the study examined vlogs created by Filipino junior and senior high school students, where they self-reported the effect of vlogging on their English speech.A total of 12 publicly posted vlogs from TikTok and YouTube were analyzed.The findings show that high school students recognize that vlogging contributed to developing their English-speaking skills.They reported that the activity allowed them to engage in authentic speaking activities, improved their accent, enabled them to acquire new vocabulary and enhance their grammar, increased their motivation to use the English language, augmented their self-expression, and strengthened their self-confidence.Hence, the study recommends that educators consider utilizing vlogging as an assessment tool aimed at fostering learners' English speaking abilities.