Promoting Students’ Motivation in Learning English Vocabulary through a Collaborative Video Project

Tryanti R Abdulrahman,Noni Basalama

doi:10.24167/celt.v19i1.493

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to motivate EFL (English Foreign Language) students in learning English vocabulary by using collaborative video Project. This study followed a case study methodology to describe how video project experience can engage students to learn English and provide them an opportunity to participate in tasks as well as enrich their vocabulary. Twenty-five EFL students in the Vocabulary Building Course (VBC) participated in this study. This study used three phases for evaluations: the pre-production phase, production phase and post production phase. Data were collected from classroom observations, the video Project process and document analyses. A summary of the findings related to the video theme and narrative analysis of students’ videos are presented in this paper. Data analysis showed that students responded differently to their video project assignments and produced different types of collaborative videos with the help of a camcorder and computer application. Then, a survey was conducted to collect feedback from participants to learn their opinions and attitudes regarding the use of collaborative video project, students’ learning and motivation. Participants in this study expressed positive attitudes and opinions toward their video-project experiences. This study demonstrates that video Project can be a great tool for promoting students’ motivation and participation in learning English, enriching their vocabulary and can be an effective and powerful tool to create fun, interactive, and collaborative learning environments.

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Encouraging EFL students to learn English can be somewhat challenging for teachers especially when students have no specific target to achieve and felt no need to learn it
Abdulrahman, T.R. & Basalama, N., Promoting Students’ Motivation in 109 Learning English Vocabulary through a Collaborative Video Project. This is on the contrary with the views of some experts, who believe that high motivation is vital to learning English language Motivation is “the combination of effort plus desire to achieve the goal of learning the language plus the favorable attitudes toward learning the language (Gardner, 1985)
This paper reports the results of a project that is aimed at motivating EFL students to learn English vocabulary by creating vocabulary videos

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Encouraging EFL students to learn English can be somewhat challenging for teachers especially when students have no specific target to achieve and felt no need to learn it. In Indonesia, English is considered as one of the compulsory subjects in Elementary up to university level, students do not seem to see the importance of using English subject outside of the classroom This is reflected in their motivation for learning English, which has a serious obstacle of not mastering the English vocabulary. In support of this, Csizér & Dörnyei (2005) emphasize that motivation can be generated, maintained, and terminated depending on learners’ varied L2 learning experiences. This is why, Dörnyei believes that studying the effect of particular instructional method, media, and strategy for enhancement EFL students’ motivation is worth studying (2001)

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