Comparison of Traditional and Video Mediated Learning of English: Tracking a New Approach

AbstractNowadays technology plays an important role in our lives, and also technological tools such as computers, laptops and cellphones with camera; Therefore students and teachers may interact from a distance. Speaking skills can be developed using these tools. This paper used Skype software to improve these skills. In this study two groups were compared in order to discover the affects of this new technology on their English speaking skill. 12 students of intermediate level participated in each group. The data was analyzed throught-test. Results indicated that learning speaking skills through video chat has lots of advantages which makes it more beneficial