Empowering EFL Parents for Interlocutor’s Role with Their Children through Contextualizing Speaking Activities at Home by Using Supplementary Videos (Video Material & Explainer Video)

Abstract

In this paper, the EFL (English as a foreign language) children’s verbal practices outside classroom contexts were enhanced by guiding their parents with supplementary bilingual videos adequately prepared for the purpose. To achieve this objective, pretest, posttest, and interview were used as data collection tools. The participants of both groups were taught the same content using the traditional classroom in classroom; however, the parents of participants in the experimental group were integrated with these supplementary videos. The statistically analyzed data has shown that the EFL children whose parents underwent the two supplementary videos (experimental group’s participants) significantly outperformed the children whose parents underwent only the students’ book (control group’s participants). Hence, supplementary bilingual videos (video material and explainer videos) are effective and supportive means of guiding EFL parents in home speaking practices with their children. Thus, it recommends that EFL parents be trained and guided for better speaking practices with their children at home.