Effect Of Watching Movies On Pronunciation Skills
Abstract
Pronunciation is an integral part of foreign language learning, so finding deferent ways to improve such skills would be a mental disturbance of any language instructors. Here I’m going to offer a proposal to make use of movies for improving pronunciation. So he objective of this study is to determine the effect of watching movies on improving pronunciation skills. In order to reach the objective, I randomly selected 50 intermediate students, and then they were divided into 2 groups, namely experimental and control. Each group consists of 25 students. I administered a pretest to test the quality of student’s pronunciation, all the data were recorded. During 3 month the experimental group has participated in an-hour movie classes every …show more content…
The concept of communicative approach gave a new meaning to theories, methods, and definitions. According to this approach, students are assessed on their level of communicative competence rather than the explicit knowledge. Pronunciation as a key part of a language directly affects learners’ communicative competences. As Mendelssohn (1994) stated; the total time spending on speaking takes up about %25-30 ;listening %40-50; reading %11-16 and writing about %9 the importance of pronunciation has been proved. By the advancement of technology and different innovations our need for communication raised up and teachers and students are more concerned with communicative aspects of any …show more content…
He examines whether English movies with and without subtitle can help to improve Iranian intermediate learner’s speaking ability. He came to this conclusion that after 8 sessions of studying, watching movies with or without subtitle both cause improvement in speaking ability of learners although the group who had watched movies with subtitle has considerable improvement in speaking ability in compare with those who had watched movies without subtitle.
Another study has been conducted by Abdullah al Mamun, he did a comprehensive research on effectiveness of audio visual aids in second language classes. He asked the opinion of both students and teachers toward this effectiveness, then studies the effect on 4 main aspect of language in an experimental research. He concluded that audio visual aids facilitate the process of learning and teaching and make the class dynamic. Audio visual aids help the student to decrease their level of anxiety and increase their level of
Pronunciation is an integral part of foreign language learning, so finding deferent ways to improve such skills would be a mental disturbance of any language instructors. Here I’m going to offer a proposal to make use of movies for improving pronunciation. So he objective of this study is to determine the effect of watching movies on improving pronunciation skills. In order to reach the objective, I randomly selected 50 intermediate students, and then they were divided into 2 groups, namely experimental and control. Each group consists of 25 students. I administered a pretest to test the quality of student’s pronunciation, all the data were recorded. During 3 month the experimental group has participated in an-hour movie classes every …show more content…
The concept of communicative approach gave a new meaning to theories, methods, and definitions. According to this approach, students are assessed on their level of communicative competence rather than the explicit knowledge. Pronunciation as a key part of a language directly affects learners’ communicative competences. As Mendelssohn (1994) stated; the total time spending on speaking takes up about %25-30 ;listening %40-50; reading %11-16 and writing about %9 the importance of pronunciation has been proved. By the advancement of technology and different innovations our need for communication raised up and teachers and students are more concerned with communicative aspects of any …show more content…
He examines whether English movies with and without subtitle can help to improve Iranian intermediate learner’s speaking ability. He came to this conclusion that after 8 sessions of studying, watching movies with or without subtitle both cause improvement in speaking ability of learners although the group who had watched movies with subtitle has considerable improvement in speaking ability in compare with those who had watched movies without subtitle.
Another study has been conducted by Abdullah al Mamun, he did a comprehensive research on effectiveness of audio visual aids in second language classes. He asked the opinion of both students and teachers toward this effectiveness, then studies the effect on 4 main aspect of language in an experimental research. He concluded that audio visual aids facilitate the process of learning and teaching and make the class dynamic. Audio visual aids help the student to decrease their level of anxiety and increase their level of