Teachers perceived YouTube videos as beneficial for teaching English vocabulary, and unanimously agreed they need special training to use it effectively¶

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Subclaims¶

q1 i? All four teachers perceived YouTube as beneficial, and all strongly agreed that teachers require special training to use YouTube effectively in the classroom. → Kabooha and Elyas 2018

Evidence¶

Kabooha and Elyas 2018¶

Raniah Kabooha & Tariq Elyas. (2018). The Effects of YouTube in Multimedia Instruction for Vocabulary Learning: Perceptions of EFL Students and Teachers. English Language Teaching, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v11n2p72

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Teacher perception questionnaire with 12 questions on the benefits of YouTube for teaching vocabulary, administered to the teachers of the experimental group. Responses are reported descriptively; with only four teachers, no inferential statistics are printed.

"When asked if teachers requir ed special training to use YouTube effectively in the classroom, all the teachers strongly agreed."

Discussion¶

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