TY  - JOUR
T1  - Students' Perceptions of the use of a YouTube channel specifically designed for an Academic Speaking Skills Course
AU  - Balbay, Seher
AU  - Kilis, Selcan
PY  - 2017
DA  - September
DO  - 10.32601/ejal.461003
JF  - Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics
JO  - EJAL
PB  - Ece ZEHİR TOPKAYA
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 2149-1135
SP  - 235
EP  - 251
VL  - 3
IS  - 2
LA  - en
AB  - Advancements in information and communication technology have revolutionized the notion of teachingand learning in terms of strategies, context, and methods. One of the most remarkable tools used inteaching and learning in the 21st century is YouTube, especially in language education. The literaturedemonstrates the need for elaboration of the use of YouTube in university level language skills educationsettings. In the 2016-2017 academic year a YouTube channel with a variety of supplementary materialvideos, was used in the Academic Speaking Course offered to all departments at Middle East TechnicalUniversity, Ankara, Turkey. The channel has course-related content input, sample presentations andtasks displaying the expectations of the course, in addition to conversation opening content. This studyaims to investigate students’ experiences and perceptions towards the use of this YouTube channel. Thestudy was conducted on 70 students taking the compulsory Academic Speaking Skills course offered tostudents from varying disciplines in Middle East Technical University. Students were asked to fill out aGoogle Sheets survey at the end of the course on their perceptions on the benefits and drawbacks of theaforementioned YouTube channel. The data was analyzed based on both descriptive statistics anddeductive content analysis. The results indicated that the majority of the students benefited to a largeextent from the videos on the playlists of this specifically-designed supplementary material YouTubechannel. The findings can contribute to further guiding university language instructors by suggesting theabundance of alternative ways to benefit from YouTube and similar online video source platforms. 
KW  - YouTube
KW  - tailor-made playlists
KW  - online videos
KW  - academic presentations
KW  - language education
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