Indonesian EFL Journal: Journal of ELT, Linguistics, and Literature
Vol 1 No 1 (2015): (July) Indonesian EFL Journal: Journal of ELT, Linguistics, and Literature

Telling a Story from Watching a Movie Potentially Improving Students’ Oral Communication

Lia Agustina (State Polytechnic of Malang, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
17 Jul 2015

Abstract

Watching a movie in a class has not always been really appreciated by administrators in education since they considered it as something used by teachers when teachers do not have anything better to do. But watching a movie in an appropriate way can be really useful for students since: a). students would learn English in a natural way and associating vocabulary to a context,   as presenting vocabulary within a context is important. b). movies are a tool for communication; it is motivated than just doing exercises in students notebooks, c). students are motivated to express ideas and therefore they would feel important as being involve in class, d). moviesoffer a visual context  aids,     besides verbal language, there is also color, movement, and sound, the class would be livelier. Movie-viewing experiences and it also creates more student-teacher and student-student discussions. 

Copyrights © 2015






Journal Info

Abbrev

efl

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

The journal welcomes contributions in such areas of current analysis as F Language Teaching and Learning, Language in Education, Language Planning, Language Testing, Curriculum Design and Development, Multilingualism and Multilingual Education, Discourse Analysis, Systemic and Functional Grammar, ...