OBSERVATION OF YOUTUBE LANGUAGE LEARNING VIDEOS (YOUTUBE LLVS)

• Authors: Munassir Alhamami
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper navigates into the YouTube website as one of the most usable online tools to learn languages these days. The paper focuses on two issues in creating YouTube language learning videos: pedagogy and technology. After observing the existing YouTube LLVs, the study presents a novel rubric that is directed towards a pedagogically sound basis for language learning in the YouTube learning environment. The purposes of the rubric are. A: selecting and evaluating the appropriate YouTube language videos for the target audience. B: creating effective language learning YouTube videos that are based on the existing language learning theories. The findings present a rubric that contains 44 questions that have been classified in five main categories: video characteristic, attractiveness, clarity, reaction and content. In each category, there are several questions discussing issues under each category. These questions are driven and modified from the language materials evaluation and design research and language classroom observations research.

Keywords

EN

YouTube videos

• Publisher: IATEFL Poland Computer Special Interest Group & University of Nicosia
• Journal: Teaching English with Technology
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 3-17

Contributors

author

Munassir Alhamami

• King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia; University of Hawaii, USA

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