TED talks: enhancing the listening and speaking skills in the english language classroom

Abstract

The following paper will show the impact of using TED Talks on students' listening and speaking skills. This idea was born after realizing that these two skills tend to be forgotten over the reading and writing skills (Saeed & Bostanci, 2022). Moreover, there is little to no research on this topic in our Ecuadorian context. For this study, research synthesis is the methodology applied, which assesses different articles to review what has been explained and researched on the target topic. The findings showed that using TED Talks within the English language classroom has advantages, such as the presentation of different models of the language, the increase of motivation for listening activities, and a reduction of students' anxiety while speaking in the target language and disadvantages, like the use of high-level vocabulary, extensive video length, and the speakers' speech rate.