An investigation into the effects of English TED Talks videos on oral presentation skill of English majored seniors at Tay Do University

Abstract

The study entitled “An investigation into the effects of English TED Talks videos on oral presentation skill of English majored seniors at Tay Do University” was aimed to identify positive effects that English majored seniors get through watching TED Talks videos in English. In fact, the population of this research was from Bachelor of English course 13 at Tay Do University which consisted 96 students were taken as the samples of this study. To achieve the aim of this study, a mixed method was used to collect quantitative and qualitative data. Questionnaires and interview papers were delivered to all participants for collecting data and getting more information. For the research, the collected data from the instruments mentioned above were all analyzed afterward. From the taken data, the results showed that there are many benefits from watching TED Talks videos in English toward oral presentation skills and the seniors can apply watching English TED Talks videos to improve their oral presentation ability.