Made by Hui Wang

1. YouTube for foreign languages:
You have to see this video
JOSEPH M. TERANTINO
PRESENTED BY HUI WANG

2. 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

3. 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”

4. Key ideas
 Pedagogical implementation of YouTube
Fill the gaps between the tools and language
acquisition
Meaningful interaction in the TL

5. 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

6. Concerns
 Privacy and safety issue
 Appropriateness of the student-created videos
 Online access (technical issue)

7. Related to readings
 Chapelle and Jamieson
 Listening tip 4
1) stimulate visual dimension
2) build context for understanding
3) raise motivation and attention level and improve comprehension
 Speaking tip 3
1) provide opportunities for oral practice through interaction with the
computer

8. 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)

9. 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