Attitudes and Self-Efficacy of Language Students on YouTube

Mr. Munassir Alhamami

IN the 21st century, technology has significantly impacted different aspects of people’s lives. Education is one aspect where we can see the use of the modern technologies. The internet and laptops have changed the form of the learning environment. The modern technologies offer abundant opportunities to assist, guide, and motivate the students to learn and further their education. YouTube is an influential technology. According to YouTube official website https://www.youtube.com/yt/press/statistics.html, YouTube is localized in 61 countries and across 61 languages. Over 6 billion hours of video are watched every month on YouTube—that's almost an hour for every person on Earth. 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Mobile makes up more than 25% of YouTube's global watch time with more than one billion views a day.  In its top sites’ list, Alexa (2013) has listed YouTube as the third top website after Google and Facebook based on a combination of average daily visitors and page views. The site with the highest combination of visitors and page views is ranked #1.

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