The Outcome of Movie Subtitles on EFL Learners’ Speaking Skill
Keywords:
subtitles, movies, speaking ability, EFL learnersAbstract
This paper aims to examine the outcomes of watching English movies with and without subtitles on EFL students’ speaking ability. The participants were 38 intermediate Gujarati learners of English randomly selected from Pavan Vidyapeeth in Mendarda which is located in Junagadh district of Gujarat. They were divided into two groups, namely ‘Experimental’ and ‘Control’. Each group consisted of 19 learners. A speaking pretest was administered to measure their speaking ability. The participants in the ‘Experimental’ group enjoyed the treatment in which they watched an English movie with subtitles while the ‘Control’ group watched the same movie without subtitles. The learners watched the movie in 20 sessions, each for about 15 minutes. At the end of the study, all subjects took the speaking posttest. By utilizing an independent t-test, the finding indicated that the ‘Experimental’ group who watched the movie with subtitles showed a considerable improvement in their speaking ability in comparison with the ‘Control’ group who watched the movie without subtitles. The results of this research can be used by those involved in the field of language teaching.
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