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This paper presents the findings of a small-scale study investigating the
preferences of German, Polish, and Spanish teenage English as a foreign language
(EFL) learners concerning their use of multimedia, such as Skype, Facebook,
YouTube, e-mails, and TV-programmes in learning English. A group of 88 respondents
was requested to complete an on-line questionnaire in order to specify how
often some selected types of multimedia are used by adolescents in their autonomous
EFL learning, and to determine their views on the extent to which some
selected multimedia affect the development of their language skills (reading,
writing, listening, and speaking) and their English pronunciation. The outcomes
confirm culture-specific preferences and provide some interesting insights into
adolescents’ favourable tools for autonomous EFL learning which are invaluable
for language teachers, researchers, and course designers. The results also show that
the respondents view watching films and listening to music as very influential in
improving their listening skills.