Abstract
Abstract
 
 As a result of the many changes and innovations in technology, new changes and methods are used in educations and especially in language teaching. In order to offer and create successful classes language teachers, especially English language teachers are using different audio-visual tools to facilitate the teaching process, besides textbooks and other interesting and engaging activities, which ensure student centeredness, autonomy, interaction and connectivity to a certain theme, and videos such as: movies, songs, power point presentations are widely used in EFL classrooms. This paper first attempts to explore the goals of using video material in EFL classrooms and the advantages of using video materials in EFL teaching, on the basis of which proposes a framework of teaching principles, strategies and specific tips which facilitate EFL teaching. Then will bring theories and practice related to the use of audio- visual tools in language learning especially in ESP classes at South East European University and why can videos be considered as valuable pedagogical tools, to facilitate the teaching process. The purpose of this study is to investigate the benefits that the language teachers and learners get in using audio-visual aids in teaching and learning the English language, as well as to show that by using the appropriate video material the teachers can improve and ensure student- centeredness, have their students interested and engaged in activities, be more active, motivated and confident in their communicative language competence.
 Keywords: Language teaching, video material, EFL classroom, teaching strategies, audio-visual tools.
Highlights
Technology in general and YouTube in particular have gained a big influence on everyone’s lives and the influence that videos have in the last years in everyone’s lives is undeniable
They could employ their autonomy in language learning
While viewing the video materials, students can put themselves in the vivid atmosphere created by the video materials and understand the pragmatics of the language used by the characters
Summary
Technology in general and YouTube in particular have gained a big influence on everyone’s lives and the influence that videos have in the last years in everyone’s lives is undeniable. When teachers bring video materials into their English classrooms, students can directly acquire a great amount of cultural background information and emotional attitudes about the learning materials. They could employ their autonomy in language learning. Two important reasons cited for such positive performance are authenticity and motivation She proposes that, “It is no longer a question of whether to take advantage of these electronic technologies in foreign language instruction, but of how to harness them and guide our students in their use (p 10-14)” Chuo and Kung (2002) report positive results using a variety of EFL/ESL websites with supplementary material with college students. Taking advantage of the latest technologies, Campbell (2004 & 2007) describes how web logs and Flickr (photo sharing) may be used to enhance the learning potential in EFL classrooms
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