Supplement movies to improve speaking and listening skills in English

 Hello everybody, welcome back to my blog. Now I will discuss about the journal that I chose to fulfill the Critical Reading course, the tittle of the journal that I chose is “Movies Supplement English Classroom to Be Effective in Improving Students’ Listening and Speaking Skills- A Review”.

  I chose this journal because as we all know that speaking and listening are very important in language learning, because to be able to answer someone's question or start a conversation we need to hear clearly what is being discussed and of course answer smoothly.
 In this journal, it is explained that providing film intake to students can improve their speaking and listening skills in English. According to the author of this journal, today’s English classroom has gained a great attention to the use of various audiovisual programmes in its teaching/learning process. It is a well-known fact that various audiovisual materials as sources of authentic language input are a great help in stimulating and facilitating the learning of a foreign/second language.
 In this section, the author expressed an expert opinion about this technique: Nunan (1999) highlights the assumption that authentic language input can be extracted from many different sources including TV and radio broadcasts such as news, movies, songs, soap operas, and comedies, recorded conversations meetings, and newspapers. 


 The author suggests The teachers are expected to choose movie pieces or full movies suitable to enhance the learners’ proficiency in acquisition of language skills. There are several reasons why the author chose this technique:

  • Films have many cross-cultural values, provide outstanding basis for the improvement of criticalt hinking skill, provide a rich source of content for language learners, and offer linguistic diversities.
  • Films also have motivating feature, they facilitate oral communication. Films have the potential to provide exposures to the real language uttered in authentic settings and the culture in which the foreign language is spoken (Stempleski, 1992).

    • It is all a review of the Introduction part of the journal that I have chosen, hopefully it can add to your knowledge. Thank you :)

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