Abstract :

Using YouTube videos in English learning has become popular in recent years. This study investigates the impact of YouTube videos on EFL juniors’ listening skill at Nguyen Tat Thanh University, Vietnam. It contributes to improving students’ listening skill. The paper conducts a mixed-method approach, including a quantitative survey on eighty juniors and a qualitative in-depth interview with five random participants. The survey provides data on attendees’ attitudes towards watching YouTube videos in listening skill improvement. Meanwhile, the interview offers deeper insights into the challenges and benefits that these videos have brought to them. The findings reveal positive effects of YouTube clips on their listening skill development through examining the survey’s results and exploring the interview’s information. The study highly conducts YouTube videos’ potential benefits in teaching and learning listening skill. Further research is suggested to discover its long-term effects on the other language skills such as speaking and writing ones.

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Keywords :

EFL juniors, listening skill, Nguyen Tat Thanh University., YouTube videos

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