خلاصة:
This study aimed at investigating the effect of instructional YouTube videos on Iranian male and female EFL learners' listening comprehension. It was conducted with 60 male and female intermediate male and female EFL learners. The Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) was used to measure the participants’ language proficiency to make sure about homogeneity of the participants. The participants were assigned into two experimental groups and two control groups based on their gender. Then, the experimental groups received instructional YouTube clips, but the control group received the same material without YouTube clips. A pre-test post-test quasi-experimental design was adopted for the purpose of doing this research study. The findings represented that the experimental groups had a significantly higher performance than the control groups and there was no significant difference between male and female learners. The findings of the study offer some practical implications for EFL teachers, learners, curriculum planners, and teaching methodology.
ملخص الجهاز:
Impact of Using YouTube Videos on Iranian Intermediate Male and Female EFL Learners' Listening Skill Development Rahmatollah Mostajeran, M.
com Abstract This study aimed at investigating the effect of instructional YouTube videos on Iranian male and female EFL learners' listening comprehension.
Rezaei and Hashim (2013) point out that EFL learners are less exposed to listening materials in the communities where English is studied as a foreign language.
The development of multimedia tools for listening comprehension and the use of input enhancement practices urged many researchers to conduct a number of empirical studies to peep into optimal ways of presenting video material to students.
Sarani, Behtash, and Arani (2014) found significant positive effects of video-based tasks on students’ listening comprehension in realizing and understanding the authentic language more efficiently.
Kuo (2009) also found positive effects of integrating YouTube video clips on the listening comprehension performance of Taiwanese EFL learners.
Research Questions Q1: Does providing instructional videos via YOUTUBE have any significant impact on Iranian intermediate male EFL learners' listening comprehension?
Q2: Does providing instructional videos via YOUTUBE have any significant impact on Iranian intermediate female EFL learners' listening comprehension?
Results The first research question was posed to investigate the effect of providing instructional videos via YOUTUBE on Iranian intermediate male EFL learners’ listening comprehension.
Therefore, providing instructional videos via YOUTUBE had a significant impact on Iranian intermediate male EFL learners’ listening comprehension.
And (c) There is no significant difference between the effect of providing instructional videos via YOUTUBE on male and female EFL learners’ listening comprehension.