The Impact of using TED-Ed as Learning Instrument on enhancing Undergraduate ESL Learners Listening Skill

Abstract

This study aims to know and to show the effect TED Talk Video as medium to enhance or improve the listening skills of students. Specifically, it explores whether using TED-Ed videos as media of learning to improve listening skills of students than using audio media on second year university students. The design of this research was quasi-experimental. In testing the hypothesis that TED-Ed videos increase students listening skills, the pre-test and post-test were distributed to the second-year students at Sindh university and SBBU. The participants were assigned to two groups, experimental and control, and each group has 30 students. Each group got a different treatment. For the experimental class, they were taught using TED-Ed videos, while for the control class, they were taught using audio-only media. There were ten sessions over three months. The post test result in experimental class has mean value five times greater than the average value of post test in the control class. It shows that the increase in the experimental class is quite significant. The results showed a large effect in using TED-Ed videos, listening skills of students increased significantly. These results recommend that using TED-Ed videos can improve listening skills of students.