Educational platforms (youtube) and the speaking skill

Abstract

The educational platform (YouTube) was an alternative strategy to improve English speaking skill. Education was currently carried out in Ecuador using technology due to the global covid-19 pandemic. As being immersed in a technological and global world, the objective of this research was to demonstrate that an educational platform (YouTube) improves English-speaking skill development. The participants were 60 students; ages range from 14 to15 from the tenth school year at "Los Andes” School. A quasi-experimental design was used to achieve that objective where students were divided into two groups: control and experimental group. Furthermore, an adapted pretest and posttest were administered to collect data that followed the Cambridge speaking test structure for A1 Movers where 30 students who belonged to the experimental group received treatment or intervention, and 30 students who belonged to the control group did not receive the treatment. Besides, a work plan was designed for one week where the treatment group received five sessions via the Zoom app. The lessons focused on different activities such as oral interviews, picture descriptions, and visual prompt stories where the experimental group was given an intervention plan using videos from Educational Platform YouTube as a strategy to promote speaking skills. A posttest was applied after the treatment where all collected data were analyzed using the SPSS program, the Shapiro-Wilk normality test, and the Wilcoxon test.