Using YouTube in Developing English Reading Comprehension
Omer Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed Abdelgadir2016
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Abstract
The aim of the study is the potential use of YouTube in Developing English Reading Comprehension at universities students, to draw the attention to the importance of YouTube as a new medium for teaching and education in general. The researcher used descriptive analytical method of analysis: the researcher has utilized of descriptive statistical method in the first step and inferential statistical method "T-test" to code and analysis data collected. The test was carefully constructed, and then it was distributed among the study which comprised of (20) students who were purposively selected. The researcher used SPSS (Statistical Packages for Social Sciences) program to analyze the data yielded from the focus group. The study showed that: YouTube has great role on enhancing the skills of reading comprehension. YouTube helps students to address their difficulties and problems of reading comprehension.
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