received aid from the media when learning new languages; people have been steadily utilizing this method of watching movies or television series in order to acquire a second language. Every person differs in his or her own method and strategies for learning a new language; however‚ there are a great number of learners who have had positive results using this method. Almost all of these cases were related to young children before or in their critical period to acquire a language. Therefore‚ there are people
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Abstract Learning a foreign language well does not simply mean mastering its pronunciation‚ grammar and vocabulary. In fact‚ the learning of a language is inseparable from the learning of its culture. It shows that students not only should grasp vocabularies‚ grammar and pronunciation，but also properly grasp the relationship between language teaching and culture understanding. It’s clear that language teaching is indeed culture teaching. It is necessary and urgent to teach not only cultural knowledge
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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
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Tagalization is the process of converting foreign language into Filipino language or it is the translating of text into Filipino. Under the 1987 Constitution XIV Section 6‚ the Filipino national language was settled and the Education department adopted a bilingual program to promote the use of Tagalog‚ the other official language. The government was swayed by studies indicating that children tended to learn better in their native languages The trend for Tagalization or as some would call
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Watching movies is a wasting of time. Movies or motion pictures have been around ever since man first discovered and invented cameras‚ and‚ in fact‚ even before that‚ through animate cartoons. It is a form of entertainment that is extremely popular in the world at large‚ thanks to dedicated filmmakers‚ modern advanced CGI (Computer-Generated Image) and increase in well-trained actors. However‚ in my opinion‚ watching movies is a huge waste of time for several important reasons. First
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Language Learning & Technology http://llt.msu.edu/vol14num1/winkegasssydorenko.pdf February 2010‚ Volume 14‚ Number 1 pp. 65–86 THE EFFECTS OF CAPTIONING VIDEOS USED FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LISTENING ACTIVITIES1 Paula Winke‚ Susan Gass‚ and Tetyana Sydorenko Michigan State University This study investigated the effects of captioning during video-based listening activities. Second- and fourth-year learners of Arabic‚ Chinese‚ Spanish‚ and Russian watched three short videos with and without captioning
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Running Head: WATCHING A MOVIE AT HOME OR IN A THEATER Watching a Movie At Home or In a Theater Qumisien Hennings Everest University Online Composition I-119 The new move Twilight is coming soon and I am faced with a decision‚ should I wait until it comes on television? Or should I pay to see it when it comes out? Although both sounds like reasonable choices‚ but watching the movies at home on television is better than watching the movie at the theater. The reason is because you do not have
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Adults Enjoy Watching Animated Movies In the past years‚ animated movies are known to have reached out only to children‚ but recently there has been an increase in adult audiences too. There are some reasons why adults are attracted to watch animated movies. Many have claimed that animated movies have become more realistic‚ appealing and a relaxing agent to adults. First‚ the storyline of animated movies are getting more and more realistic. Adults find that recent animated movies are real as they
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(2010) 000–000 Procedia Computer www.elsevier.com/locate/procedia Science www.elsevier.com/locate/procedia WCIT-2010 Effects of e-learning on Language Learning Neda Mohammadia* ‚ Vahid Ghorbanib ‚ Farideh Hamidiab a b MA student of Curriculum Development‚Department of Education‚mohammadi173a@yahoo.com BA student in English Education‚Department of English Language‚ v_ghorbani777@yahoo.com ab Assistant professor of psychology‚Department of Education‚fhamidi@srttu.edu Shahid Rajaee Teacher
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The Effects of Horror Movies on Children By Timothy Sexton‚ eHow Contributor The implicit‚ and often explicit‚ intention of horror movies is to scare people. The fright engendered by horror movies can have residual psychological effects for years. Two studies‚ "Tales from the Screen: Enduring Fright Reactions to Scary Media" and another‚ funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)‚ both concluded that exposure horror movies may have long-lasting adverse effects on children. 1. Anxiety
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