Review of a journal article by Arzayim Tursinbaeva

CRITICAL REVIEW OF A JOURNAL ARTICLE by Arzayim Tursinbaeva
The purpose of the study is to shed light on a new mode of teaching English courses and examine the effective use of Youtube videos for teaching English language in classrooms as supplementary material. The study focuses on the using of Youtube as supplementary material. the learners and also the lectures and teachers. The subjects of the research were 53 learners studying the English language at Taibah University in Alula: 30 learners from group A and 23 learners from group B. The data were collected through interviews and online survey. The findings show that the use of Youtube in teaching English language plays a leading role in helping learners to understand their English lesson. In other words. Youtube presented a substantial influence on students understanding of English.
The author organised the article well but the methodology was not written in separate section. This article included the information about the research method in a section named "The study plan".
This article was introduced with an abstract, which provided a clear stance on the purpose of the research conducted by the author. The findings and recommendation are also outlined clearly. But the method used in the research was not clearly written in this abstract.
The introduction section was started with the decription of the general fact in which technology plays a vital role in societies and can offer learners many online materials, such as websites for learning. The study objectives and rationale were clearly stated in separate subsections.
The methodology was not clearly presented in the article. The study used both qualitative and quantitative method but there was no information about why those methods were both chosen. Though, the author indeed explained the aspect of sampling and data collecting. The participant were also described clearly.
The results or findings of the study were presented clearly and supported with the existence of graphs from two data, which are the interview and the survey data.
The discussion of this study provided the analysis on the interview results and the survey feedback from the learners. The analysis was not presented in balanced manner. The author mostly discussed the strengths of the results. after finished with the analysis, the author pointed out the validation of his conclusions and also mentioned one previous study which found the similar results, but the author did not recommend ways in which current research could be improved.
The conclusions were developed towards the end of the article. It already covered the implications of the study and the practical significance of the research was emphasised