Using YouTube on Speaking Skills for EFL Students

Abstract

The aim of this study is to shed light on a developed approach to be adopted in EFL speaking classes and show the effectiveness of using YouTube videos for teaching the English language in speaking classrooms as pedagogical tools to improve EFL learners’ speaking skills. To find out the impact of using You Tubes on improving speaking skills of EFL learners, the qualitative experimental approach is used to conduct this study. The results revealed that employing YouTube technique has a positive impact on the effectiveness of the speaking skills, fluency and pronunciation of EFL learners. This study concluded that YouTube videos is a very effective CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning) tool towards improving students’ speaking skills. This study recommends the use of YouTube approach in order to help students overcome speaking problems. The challenge of education in meeting the needs of internet generation is quite big. This is due to their different life experience of his special experience in using technology. The Internet itself opens up many possibilities of integrating technology in classroom learning. YouTube is one of the learning media that can be integrated into subjects considered difficult by students. this study is to see how far Youtube can be used as a medium of learning in English subjects. The results showed that the video on Youtube can be used as one of the learning media.