Enhancing speaking fluency in English through the use of open educational resources among secondary school students in Kazakhstan

Toleuzhan A.T. Sarzhanova G.B. Tleuzhanova G.K. Erdem C.
2025 Inderscience Publishers

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning
2025 #18 Issue 1 32 - 51 pp.

This study examines Kazakhstani intermediate students’ perspectives on using self-developed open educational resources (OER) to enhance their speaking skills in English as a foreign language (EFL). The survey analysis also aims to reveal whether there are differences based on participants’ gender. Using a purposive sampling technique, data was collected through Google forms from 302 students. The practical outcome has displayed that the self-developed OER, including an electronic textbook and a YouTube channel, has been warmly accepted by most participants. Due to OERs’ real-life context, simpler language, and entertaining features based on the essential elements of the language, participants’ fluency and confidence in speaking English enhanced, and its persistent use enabled students to become more independent learners in EFL, taking on the responsibility for their learning. Moreover, EFL learners’ motivation to learn the language has significantly increased due to the proposed OER entertaining content identified as the most appealing feature among EFL students. Copyright

authentic materials , autonomous learning , confidence , digital technologies in EFL , entertaining content , motivation , OER , open educational resources , speaking fluency , You Tube videos

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Department of the Theory and Practice of Foreign Language Training, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Karaganda Buketov University, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Dean of Foreign Languages Faculty, Karaganda Buketov University, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
Mongolian and Korean Studies, Department of Asian Studies AMU, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland

Department of the Theory and Practice of Foreign Language Training
Dean of Foreign Languages Faculty
Mongolian and Korean Studies

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