Video Blogging: A Speaking Skills Enhancer among ESL Learners
Catherine G. Gumaru, Teacher III, Cabagan Riverside National High School
ABSTRACT
This study examined the effectiveness of Videoblogging in enhancing the speaking skills of English as a Second Language (ESL) learners. One group pretest-posttest design, a quasi-experimental method, was used in this study to determine the effectiveness of Videoblogging activities in improving the speaking performance of the students in English, wherein the difference between the student's performance before and after the intervention was tested and analyzed. The experimental data revealed that the Videoblogging activities effectively enhanced the ESL learners' speaking skills as the effect size of 3.29 was remarkably large. In addition, their skills in vocabulary use, fluency in speaking, pronunciation, use of communication strategies, and even grammatical accuracy improved relatively. As the p-value of 0.000 indicates, the difference between the pretest and post-test scores is statistically significant at a 0.01 level of significance. Hence, Video Blogging activities are recommended to be utilized in the English classroom as it helps learners develop their speaking skills using the English language in a more authentic communicative activity.
Keywords: Performance, Language Learning, Improvement
Year: 2023
posted on September 9, 2023
How to Cite
Gumaru, C. (2023). Video Blogging: A Speaking Skills Enhancer among ESL Learners. Saringit, 3(1), 132-136.