The use of video-based blogs to enhance ESL students’ oral presentation skills
The study aimed to examine the use of video-based blogs in enhancing students’ oral presentation skills in an Effective Communication course. Specifically, it explored how video-based blogs are used to enhance students’ oral presentation skills, students’ views on the use of video-based blogs in enh...
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9230/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/9230/1/Safra_Liyana_Sukiman.pdf |
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| Summary: | The study aimed to examine the use of video-based blogs in enhancing students’ oral
presentation skills in an Effective Communication course. Specifically, it explored
how video-based blogs are used to enhance students’ oral presentation skills, students’
views on the use of video-based blogs in enhancing oral presentation skills and the
influence of video-based blogs on students’ oral presentation skills. Fifteen
undergraduate students from various engineering faculties in one public technical
university were selected to participate in the study via purposive sampling. This study
adopted a qualitative research approach. The data were gathered from four different
data sources, (a) video-based blogs, (b) reflective journal, (c) video-recorded
speeches, and (d) oral presentation scoring rubric. In this study, the video-based blogs
were used repeatedly throughout the three stages of the video-based blog activities to
produce an oral presentation of the same topic. The repetition is necessary in order to
give ESL students ample oral practice for continuous improvement. With the repeated
oral practice, students can improve their oral presentation skills. However, the use of
video-based blogs should fulfil three criteria namely (a) proper planning and time
management, (b) assessment of oral presentation has to be evaluated using a scoring
rubric and (c) feedback has to be useful and timely. Nonetheless, challenges that
compromise the effectiveness of video-based blogs such as access to the Internet
connection, affective interferences, availability of recording venue, recording tools
and computer software, students’ technical capability as well as weak link to real-time
communication should be addressed by the language instructors before the execution
of video-based blogs activities. The findings of the study also revealed that the
students reacted positively to the use of video-based blogs in enhancing oral
presentation skills and video-based blogs have positive influence on the students’ oral
presentation skills, especially in the areas of verbal skills, non-verbal skills and
content. |
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