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The aim of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of the use of the online video clips as the warm up activity for EFL college freshmen to enhance their listening and speaking competence. Online video clips offer the authentic material that is so important in the EFL learning environment. In particular, online video clips are a dynamic language learning tool which offers contextual and visual clues to EFL students. Good EFL pedagogy requires that "warm-ups" be used to grab the students' attention at the beginning of a class period. It is proposed that warm up activities that use effective online video clips can promote a student-centered way of learning and generate language learner motivation in EFL setting. To validate this claim, twenty eight college students were asked to participate in warm up activities that involve watching a selected online video clip. Based on the given online video clip, they were told to ask and answer various questions, and have a conversation with their group members or partner. A survey questionnaire was developed and administered to analyze students' responses toward the use of online video clips in the beginning of each class over a period of 14 weeks. The findings of the study are discussed and can be helpful for English teachers in designing their own effective warm up activities by using the online video clips. Pedagogical implications based on the findings are also suggested. |
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