YouTube for foreign languages: You have to see this video

JOSEPH M. TERANTINOPRESENTED BY HUI WANG

Key concepts Digital native

a person who has grown up with digital technology (Terantino, pp. 11)

Prensky’s (2001) list of digital natives’ wants of education Efficiency Multi-tasking Hands-on activities Use of graphic (comes before text) Random access to information Social network Game > serious work Frequent rewards

Key concepts

Less commonly taught languages (LCTLs)

Picture superiority effect Students retain better when presented with pictures rather than texts

“Head fake” Randy Pausch (Last Lecture): “a parent or educator shifts the focus of

an activity wile simultaneously teaching the targeted content”

Key ideas

Pedagogical implementation of YouTubeFill the gaps between the tools and language

acquisitionMeaningful interaction in the TL

Practical applications YouTube for providing content and information

Videos for LCTLs Culture-based videos (view objectively)

YouTube for student-created videos Presentations

YouTube for collaboration Real feedback

Concerns

Privacy and safety issue

Appropriateness of the student-created videos

Online access (technical issue)

Related to readings

Chapelle and Jamieson Listening tip 4

1) stimulate visual dimension2) build context for understanding3) raise motivation and attention level and improve

comprehension Speaking tip 3

1) provide opportunities for oral practice through interaction with the computer

Related to readings

Tanner and Landon

■ “Embedding these strategies into computer-assisted materials would benefit learners by allowing them to take control of their own learning and by providing discourse-length contexts in which to practice those prosodic features that improve intelligibility and comprehensibility” (pp. 53)

■ [conclusion]“…self-directed, computer-assisted cued pronunciation readings can provide an effective way to help students improve their ability to perceive, and prosodic features outside of class.” (pp. 62)

Merits of the article

Presents a new way of using existing, well-developed internet resource in ESL/EFL classrooms

Provides lists of available videos for language learning Sample tables next slide