The Implementation of Authentic Award-winning Acceptance Speeches to Enhance IELTS Learners’ Motivation in Speaking Skills

Abstract

Learners’ motivation in learning English plays an undeniable role in their progress. However, this is where the problem arises when language teachers find it struggling to boost their motivation to absorb the knowledge and produce a product. Learners’ lack of confidence in poor knowledge concerning background and linguistics discourages them from making any noticeable improvements, which is occurring in speaking classes when learners are afraid of voicing their opinions. The implementation of authentic videos to stimulate learners’ performance in speaking skills has been widely investigated, still the questions of what and how they are exploited have remained restrictively answered. The study aims at examining the impact of a specific type of video among numerous sources on the speaking ability of five intermediate-level learners who were preparing for the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) examination. The findings revealed that learners were eager to watch the authentic videos and they could learn a great deal from them, especially background knowledge, new range of vocabulary, native pronunciation and intonation.