YouTube Curriculum and Instruction for ESL/EFL Pedagogy

In middle part of Taiwan, interactively narrative interviews were conducted by face-to-face mode, in four classes, during 2015-2016 and in one in 2021. Its procedures were recorded by camera in the classrooms set up by the schools. In two university of middle west Taiwan, a technology school and a formal school, college students as well as the students were taught to speak in English, using the author's as well as their teacher's YouTube channels containing teaching and learning materials. In college English courses at two schools (N=51+49+89=189, 2015-2016 & N=98 2020-2021 in two school, in four classes using more than two years) in Yunlin and Changhwa, of Taiwan, and one sophomore class and courses (2020-2021, N=98) in Yunlin, this research project by YouTube channels of the instructor as well as the author, has discovered its efficiency and effectiveness. In the five classes in two periods, the university students in two universities were decidedly motivated to participate and accept to use the updated way of learning and teaching. Most adult students believed they have more study intention by using cell phones and they tended to support this updated pedagogy of teaching.

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Grace Hui Chin Lin é professora de inglês em Taiwan, actualmente na NFUST. Os seus interesses de investigação incluem Linguística, Estudos Interculturais e Traduções/Interpretações. Ela tinha leccionado na Universidade de Medicina da China como professora assistente adjunta. Os 8 alunos do seu tio foram laureados com o Prémio Nobel.