Video Courses to Vocational School Students' Foreign Language Learning

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to: 1) investigate how students in vocational schools study a foreign language with the aid of digital media, 2) determine the association between the use of digital media and foreign language proficiency of vocational school students through their listening, reading, writing, and oral expression, and 3) ascertain if learners of diverse ages, genders, and levels of foreign language ability use digital media in the same way. The samples of this research included 30 vocational school students. The research instruments consisted of: 1) the digital media in foreign language teaching skills, 2) a pretest and a posttest for the achievement assessment, and 3) a satisfaction questionnaire to evaluate students' satisfaction with the application of digital media in foreign language teaching skills. The research results indicated that the use of online videos for foreign language instruction could help improve students' listening, speaking, reading, and oral expression. The pre-test and post-test scores of foreign language listening, reading, writing, and oral expression for vocational school students using the online videos were significantly different (p < .05), and after adopting the online videos, vocational school students' satisfaction was at a high level.