Leveraging YouTube and Instagram short videos as tools to overcome the limitations of traditional learning materials in improving foreign language undergraduates’ writing proficiency
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This paper has explored the significant impacts of using social media tools, such as YouTube and Instagram short videos, to enhance the writing skills of undergraduates in foreign language education. The paper expanded on how YouTube and Instagram short videos can help undergraduates overcome the limitations of traditional learning methods by improving their writing proficiency in foreign languages. The study also explored the perceptions and attitudes of university lecturers towards the integration and use of YouTube and Instagram videos to enhance the writing skills of their undergraduates. The paper conducted both experiments and surveys, wherein 302 undergraduates in FL participated in the experiments in two groups (CG and EG), and 67 university lecturers participated in the survey. The results of the pretest indicated that both the participants in the Cg and EG are comparable in terms of their writing skills. However, after the experiment, another test was conducted, and the results indicated that participants in the EG groups extensively outperformed the participants in the CG group. The mean value of CG was 34.46 and the standard deviation was 9.355, and in EG, the mean score was 79.05 and the standard deviation was 3.056, which clearly unveiled the difference between them. The t-value (15.63) in combination with an extremely low p-value (0.001) implies that there was a highly significant difference between pre- and post-test scores. This suggested that the traditional training methods were ineffective in improving the writing skills of participants. The results of the survey also indicated that the lecturers generally accept and admire the use of YouTube and Instagram videos to enhance the writing skills of undergraduates. It is thus concluded that YuTube and Instagram short videos are very effective in enhancing foreign language writing skills, which is a tool to overcome the limitations of traditional learning materials.
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