Słowo. Studia językoznawcze nr 15/2024

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    Confidence coaching YouTube clips as a useful tool in creative teaching of business-related vocabulary to adolescent learners of English
    (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2024-12) Polok, Krzysztof; Grotowski, Karol
    This study intends to contribute towards further verification of the language coaching notion, and language confidence clips available on the YouTube platform, in particular. Thus, it aims to shed more light on the novelty approach towards learning, that is the confidence coaching clips on YouTube. The ideas presented in the paper are based upon our own experiences gained from this form of teaching. Additionally, the research presented in the further part of the paper shows the function of the creative approach to an L2 adult/adolescent learner and signifies its prominence in the whole process of L2 education. The principal goal of this study is to assess the usefulness of confidence coach YouTube clips in teaching business-related vocabulary to adolescent learners and in this way determining the potential advantages and/or the limitations of implementing the aforementioned short clips in the teaching process of business-related vocabulary in a language classroom (Nation, 2001). The research comprises two stages of evaluation, applied to both the experimental (E) and control (C) groups – the qualitative and quantitative form. The quantitative evaluation is carried out by means of the pre- and post-tests applied to secondary school students. The students in both groups attend the second and third grade of Technical Secondary School in Cieszyn, Poland, and are between 16 and 18 years of age. The vocational profile of the students is Logistics Technician. All of the groups are classified at the pre-intermediate level of proficiency in English with only 4 pupils with English competency notably surpassing the level of the groups. Both tests focus on the practical use of core curriculum business lexis items that are the target of the research and are applied in the form of YouTube clips to the experimental group, with no application of such clips to the control group where the same core curriculum materials are delivered in the standard way. The qualitative assessment is applied to the two groups using a questionnaire handed out to students following the research. To provide the research with substantial data regarding the feedback of the participants, all participants of the study were requested to answer three basic research questions split into three sub-groups: 1) measuring the participants’ level of lexical knowledge; 2) checking the correctness of participants’ answers; and 3) eliciting answers, presenting the personal and unstructured view of the participants (2 items). Five-point Likert scale was applied to find the material to be further elaborated statistically. The findings indicate that the final results concerning the practical use of business vocabulary in the experimental group are statistically more stable when compared to the results obtained within the control group. The post-test scores, compared to the scores of the pre-test, reinforce the theory that the carrier of the target vocabulary items, being the confidence coach YouTube clips improved the knowledge of the students in the experimental group in comparison to the control group that learned it via the traditional, paper-based way. It was also found that there is a relationship between the confidence coach YouTube clips and creative approach in learning vocabulary, business lexis included. What is more, the obtained results showed that 1) the majority of the students (95%) had never experienced using confidence coach You Tube clips as a form helping them to utilise business lexis, which also suggests that there is an immense opportunity for exploring further and utilizing this type of learning in the near future; 2) the students’ attitudes towards the usefulness of YouTube confidence coach clips in learning business-related vocabulary in a stress-free manner was assessed as being very useful by them; and 3) the students’ general perception of the YouTube confidence coach clips in their learning of new business-related vocabulary items and phrases creatively and in an enjoyable manner was also assessed as being predominantly positive. The research allows to determine the extent to which adolescent students of secondary school level taking part in ESP English education could expect success, if only they were requested to participate in the lessons based on involving and creatively elaborated materials, such as confidence coach You Tube clips. The results of the study confirm the existence of a relationship between the confidence coach YouTube clips and a creative approach in learning vocabulary, one more time highlighting the importance of introduction of attractive and creative materials that may be positively assessed by the learners; the thesis that such materials make the learners more willing to self-motivate themselves and voluntarily indulge in further mental effort expecting activities was thus found to be positively assessed one more time.