ESSAY #1

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How YouTube Impacts People on Learning English

YouTube, the biggest and the famous video-sharing website, has the abilities to influence people to learning English. It is caused by there is a lot of videos in YouTube available in English. It makes people who watch certain English videos, especially a foreign speaker, have to read the caption and listen whether they want it or not.  However, this kind of situation will give a good impact to the viewers, because, unconsciously, they will learn, not only a lot of new vocabulary, but also improving their listening comprehension skill through watching YouTube videos. Based on the figure below, YouTube videos are increasing in every single year which means there will more various content that English learner views.


The first impact while using YouTube for English Learner is easily to obtain the new vocabulary. Kabooha & Elyas (2015) state that vocabulary is one of the essential components in language learning. Moreover, Hammer (2001) claims that vocabulary is the core of language. Because of this, in order to communicate effectively, English language learners must learn a lot of vocabulary. Fortunately, these days, there are a lot of contents that is provided in English, especially the YouTube Videos which can be accessed effortlessly.
In the other side, an English learner who watch YouTube, has also already improved their listening skill which is stated by Chhabra (2012).  Kelsen (2009) found that using YouTube is more interesting and makes the learner more motivated to learn listening.

In conclusion, using YouTube as a media for learning English is a good choice. But, the learner still have to find the appropriate video for their education learning. Because, YouTube still have a weakness like poor sound quality or the bad pronunciation of the speaker.
REFERENCES:

 Kabooha, R., & Elyas, T. (2018). The Effects of YouTube in Multimedia Instruction for Vocabulary Learning: Perceptions of EFL Students and Teachers. English Language Teaching, 11(2), 72. https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v11n2p72



Comments

  1. Anantha N.AMarch 14, 2019 at 9:01 PM

    Overall the writing is good. But it would be better if the introduction you also put some expert or other research quote to back up your introdiction. If you only use general statement only it will not be concrete.

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  2. Niel-RuliMarch 14, 2019 at 9:35 PM

    overall is good enough, but you should add more expert study to support your idea in your writing.

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    1. Reztu PrawiraMarch 14, 2019 at 9:43 PM

      Yes, I realized that my essay doesnt have much expert study to support my statements. I will try again later. Thank you for visiting anyway.

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  3. Ela Puji LestariMarch 14, 2019 at 9:35 PM

    the essay is good, there are introduction, and then the figure, and conclusion. I think you should put more about the expert quotation and you should write the explanation of the figure. I think you forgot to put the thesis statement about your essay. thank you

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  4. ImeldaMarch 20, 2019 at 11:24 PM

    Hi Reztu, I appreciate your writing. However it is quite short, write the essay more in length would be great. You could also explain more about your figure. Thanks

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