Research in English and Education Journal
Vol 1, No 2: December 2016

YouTube Videos in Teaching Listening: The benefits in Experts’ Views

Lidia Puspa Ayu (Syiah Kuala University)



Article Info

Publish Date
19 Feb 2017

Abstract

This library research was conducted by finding out experts’ theories and research evidence about how YouTube videos improve students’ listening skill. The findings showed that YouTube enables teachers to create activity attempting an improvement on students’ listening ability as well as helping them identifying vocabulary, contraction, speed, and tempo of speech Mayoral et al. Furthermore, YouTube provides both audio and visual to the learners which gave students an opportunity to figure out the speech or words they heard while learning the subject content as well as to improve their language abilities Oddone. This assists learners to get better description of the language being spoken. Based on the findings, teachers are suggested to provide YouTube videos to familiarize the materials to the language learners. The writer also recommends that future studies investigate the problems and difficulties that may occur in teaching listening through YouTube videos.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

READ

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

READ (Research in English and Education) Journal (e-ISSN 2528-746X) is a peer-reviewed and open access academic journal published by the Department of English Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Syiah Kuala, Banda Aceh, Indonesia. It highlights and publishes works in ...