2023 Madani : Jurnal Ilmiah Multidisipline 59 | Vol. 1 No. 4- Effectiveness of Using Imitation Technique (Khaliatun Mardiyah, dkk ) Madani: Jurnal Ilmiah Multidisiplin Volume 1, Nomor 4, Mei 2023, Halaman, 49-58 e-ISSN: 2986-6340 DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7915122 Effectiveness of Using Imitation Technique Through English Video Towards Students’ English Pronunciation Ability Khaliatun Mardiyah 1 *, Ana Santika 2 12 University of Nadhatul Ulama Surabaya Email : 1* khaliatunmardiyah@gmail.com 2 Anasantika277@gmail.com Abstract The purpose of this study was to find out whether learning English using imitation video technique can improve the English pronunciation ability of class X high school students who were divided into 2 groups, namely the experimental group and the control group. This study used a samples of 50 students taken from 25 students the experimental class and 25 students from the control class. In this study, the researcher used student records to determine the pre- test and post-test. Furthermore, the results of the two tests were tested statistically using the normality test, homogeneity test, and t-test. The average value in the data shows that the pre- test value in the class that received treatment was 46.24 and the average value in the post-test was 72.88. after being applied to imitate English videos, there was an increase in the average score of students by 26.64. then the results of the t-test showed to t-table with a significant level of 5% was 2.93 and the degrees of freedom (df) were 48, for the t-test score was 3.61. As the t-test value is greater than the t-table value, Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. In measuring the level of effect size with d= 1.78 this shows that this study has strong effective in improving students; English pronunciation skills. Therefore, to improve English pronunciation skills, it is highly recommended to use the technique of imitating English videos through YouTube media. Keywords: Effectiveness, Imitating English Video, Pronunciation Ability. Introduction Pronunciation is crucial thing in good communication because the wrong pronunciation will guide to negative and misinterpretation impression with the other person. Thus, English pronunciation is one of the most difficult abilities to acquire and learners should spend lots of time to enhance their pronunciation (Gilakjani, 2016). Many international student who study English as a foreign language often make a mistake that they do not pay enough interest to the pronunciation of English. Pronunciation is important factor of speaking and it gives a significant effect on determining the utterance meaning (Aprianto and Heaerazi, 2019). Most of student underestimate the importance of pronunciation because they consider that the pronunciation is less important than other English aspects such as vocabulary, grammar and lexicology. Pronunciation is packet of language aspects that nearly everyone obstinate to learn, remarkably as it becomes a extraneous language. To persuade the adjust pronunciation takes a tough and has to practice costantly. Pronunciation is considered as a sub-skill of speaking (Pourhosein Gilakjani & Ahmadi, 2016). However, as the foreign language learners need more and more practice in learning pronunciation. English language will not be useful in communication properly if the student who is studied English as foreign language have not obtained English pronunciation ability. Learning pronunciation needs a lot of effort and time especially when the EFL learns it as