Personally, the effectiveness of language learning and teaching with Youtube is not always absolutely positive. There should be strengths and weakness deserving us to think in different aspects.
Learning and teaching with Youtube is definitely more fun than reading in the textbook. Youtube provides learners with vivid animation and even funny shows to arouse learners’ interest, creativity and boost their motivations to know more. By watching Youtube, learners’ thought and well-rounded direction of learning are operated, bringing about students’ effective learning. In my own experience, learning English with Youtube should be more suitable to apply in the beginners. Since English learners, especially beginners, are easily to lose their interest in English, as long as they find it difficult and boring. In addition, the beginners would imitate the pronunciation in the film. The practice will help them find out the flaws, and make the correction. Consequently, building the interest in English for beginners with Youtube is a good way.
On the other hand, I think Youtube is not usually suitable for advance-level students. In my own teaching experience, using Youtube as a main tool for advance learners will normally cause student to distract from their learning. However, Youtube is a good tool for listening training. There are many valuable and outstanding lectures presented by celebrities. Students can learn from the vocabulary usage, sentence patterns, etc. Nevertheless, I think as a advance learners, they should be more focus on the books, such like magazines, novel, journals, newspapers, etc, to broaden more fundamental knowledge.
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