TED

Ted talk has emerged as a main source of knowledge learning and acquisition in recent years. I think it operates like Youtube. But, their contents are totally different. On Youtube, participants post whatever video clips they like to while on Tedtalk, videos are all about meaningful and useful speeches given by luminaries and world renowned persons from every academic field and from all over the world. This is a real content based instruction. Learners can improve their listening skills at the same time when they are absorbing new knowledge.

The best part is that there are over 40 kinds of subtitles. Hence this website can be used in many countries for English learning as a foreign language classroom. I always believe that intensive listening is more beneficial than extensive one in that students need to review what parts they have problems with and rewind to listen to those parts for more times with the help of caption. Subtitles are necessary for learners. If learners do not need subtitles, then they are not learners anymore.