The Effectiveness of Using Short Videos in Teaching English to Young Learners

Abstract

Videos have become a helpful tool in the field of teaching English as a foreign language, especially when dealing with young learners who have never been exposed to the language in academic contexts before. The study in hand is conducted to investigate the effectiveness of using short videos in teaching English to young learners. The hypothesis adapted in this study sets out that using short videos along with a course book as a reference to teach English to young learners is an effective technique to increase their understanding and proper use of the language. The instrument used in this present work is a pre-experiment conducted on one group of participants by using a pre-test and post-test to collect the data needed. The experiment was conducted at Aspire Private School and was two months long where a sample of 13 fourth graders was selected to be thought with the use of videos. The data gathered at the end of the experiment revealed a significant difference between the pre-test and the post-test’s results where the scores were highly increased and this shows that there is indeed significant effectiveness in using videos to teach general proficiency in English to students. Ultimately, the level of the learners was highly increased and enhanced which proves that the technique adapted is efficient. These results indicate that there are positive effects on using videos to teach general proficiency in English to young learners; these remarks are indicative rather than conclusive given that the design used in this research is a pre-experimental design. In the light of the results gathered from this research, the earlier stated hypothesis was successfully confirmed