The document discusses using YouTube in language classrooms. It outlines opportunities for online language learning and highlights how YouTube allows anyone to post videos that millions can view within minutes, providing exposure to authentic language use. A student comment notes that YouTube provides opportunities to repeatedly listen to native speakers, help with pronunciation from songs, understand everyday language from shows, and experience foreign culture, helping language learning. The document concludes with a reminder to "watch out" for potential issues when using YouTube for education.

1. “Broadcast Yourself”: The
use of YouTube in
language classrooms
Cem BALÇIKANLI
University of Florida,
Center for European Studies
E-mail: balcikanli@ufl.edu
12th Annual NCOLCTL Conference, 2009
Madison, USA

2. Outline
* Online Language Learning
Opportunites
* Long Live, You Tube!
* Some Applications
* WATCH OUT!
* Conclusion

4. Language learning should provide exposure to
authentic language use and teachers need to help
students explore online learning possibilities
(Blin 2004; Groß and Wolf 2001).

5. Facebook
Focus On Grammar
Real English
Hot Potatoes
MySpace
Wiki
YouTube
Second Life
Blackboard Learning System

6. YouTube, a video-sharing website where users can
upload, view and share video clips, has made it
possible for anyone who can use a computer to
post a video that millions of people can within
minutes.

8. LANGUAGE LEARNING ?

15. A student’s comment
I have found great value in the use of You
Tube for language learning. It provides a great
deal of opportunities to hear native speakers,
as many times as I want, when I want.
Listening to Turkish songs helps my
pronunciation as well and Turkish shows help
me in understanding everyday language.
Doing both of these also provides me with first
hand encounters of Turkish culture, that I
would be without were it not for You Tube.

16. http://www.youtube.com/edu

18. Watch out!!

19. 4/23/2009
Madison, downtown
1.05 pm