The document discusses various ways YouTube can be used in the ESL classroom, including exposing students to authentic listening from YouTube videos, having students make their own movies to practice English, and using YouTube to teach regional accents and cultures. It also provides instructions for downloading YouTube videos, converting them to MP3 format, and examples of lesson plans using YouTube videos to practice emotions and comprehension questions.

1. Using YouTube in the ESL
classroom
-Adapting to authentic listening
-English through movie making
-Teaching regional accents and culture
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-Downloading YouTube videos to your computer
-YouTube video -> MP3
-Lesson highlight: ESL drama club & YouTube
-Creative Uses for YouTube

2. Adapting to Authentic Listening
 YouTube as comprehensible input
 Madden - “listening from the middle”
 Goal of listening instruction is to prepare
students to understand actual speech
 Predicting what came before, what’s next,
relationship amongst speakers, the nature of
the text
 Source: Madden, J. P. (2008). Helping ESL Students Adapt to
Authentic Listening Situations. The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. XIV,
No. 1. Retrieved from http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Madden-
AuthenticListening.html.

3. Motivating Students Through
Movie-Making
 Dana Hazzard (Pusan University) found movie making a
motivating activity for students
 Teacher guided students through brainstorming and
script-writing process
 Students poured effort and creativity into the movies not
normally seen in class
 Students could choose topics, found a place to express
their voice, and publish their work on YouTube
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omAVtLrB1fk
 Source: Hazzard, D. (2006). Motivating ESL/EFL Students to Use
English Through Movie Making. The Internet TESL Journal, Vol. XII,
No. 12. Retrieved from http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Hazzard-
MakingMovies.html.

4. Using YouTube to teach
regional accents and culture
 Many students study accents through phonic transcripts in
textbooks, which can be frustrating
 Jya-Lin Hwang did a study of student satisfaction after exposing
them to accent study on YouTube
 Searching for “British accent” “Australian accent” etc and having
students write down what they heard as differences
 Especially useful when these native speakers are not on hand
 Showing students YouTube strategies (using pause, timeline bar to
rewind) and giving students skills to explore on their own
 Source: Zhang, L. J., Rubdy, R., & Alsagoff, L. (Eds.). (2009).
Englishes and Literatures-in-English in a Globalised World:
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on English in
Southeast Asia (pp. 137-153). Singapore: National Institute of
Education, Nanyang Technological University.

5. Downloading YouTube Videos
 It’s easy and fast!
 Sites to know: www.keepvid.com, www.vixy.net
 FLV player:
http://www.wimpyplayer.com/products/wimpy_st
andalone_flv_player.html
 Carry a thumb drive in your bag for emergency
technology situations

6. YouTube Video -> MP3
 Download and install Audacity (PC & Mac)
http://www.audacity.com
 For a great tutorial check out:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=f9_pSLG0LZQ
 For mp3 export, you will need to search Google
for “lame_enc.dll” (just have it on your desktop
and be ready to identify it when Audacity asks
for it)
 Your mp3 is now ready to be burned to a CD,
copied to a thumb drive etc.

7. ESL Lesson: Hannah Montana
 Brainstorm emotions
 First viewing: silent, students write down
emotions they see
 Read main idea questions
 Second viewing: Main idea questions
 Read detail questions, focus on pronunciation
 Third viewing: Detail questions
 Post-viewing: Use emotions they wrote down to
inform their roleplay
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=McVhEP23OYo (4:36)

8. Sample Main Idea Questions
 True or False:
 Hannah thinks the Jonas brothers are
ugly.
 Hannah’s father is famous.
 The Jonas brothers want to write a song
with Hannah.

9. Sample Detail Questions
 Indicate which character is being
mentioned:
 This character is in a hurry.
 This character was discovered at a barber
shop.
 This character have written but not sung
many hit songs.
Nick Jonas / Hannah’s Father / Hannah

10. Creative Uses for YouTube
 Students can have fun watching and
creating videos
 Even teachers can have fun:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=XKviYiZhtZY