]Kurdish-Speaking University EFL Learners’ Perceptions of the Usefulness and Effectiveness of TED Talks Videos in Developing Listening and Speaking Skills
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It is crucial to collect perceptions of learners after every new experiment where authentic materials, such as TED Talks, have been integrated for educational operationalization in ELF classrooms. Thus, this study investigates Kurdish-speaking university ELF learners’ perceptions of how useful the TED Talks videos have been for their listening and speaking skills. A close-ended questionnaire has been used as part of a descriptive quantitative methodology to collect the opinions of 42 Kurd university learners post
intervention period. The instrument demonstrated a very high reliability score (Cronbach's α = 0.92) after adaptation and piloting. The results revealed overwhelming positive perceptions for all the variables with a collective mean score of 4.45 and a low standard deviation score of 0.38. These findings were proven significant and unanimously consistent through a one-sample t-test (t = 24.469, p = 0.000). These outcomes indicate that EFL Learners hold highly positive opinions of TED Talks as useful pedagogical resources for developing their listening and speaking skills.
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