Investigating Students’ Attitudes towards Watching English Movies in Enhancing EFL Students’ Speaking Skill

Abstract

This study seeks to investigate students’ attitudes towards watching movies in EFL setting as an instructional tool to enhance their speaking skill. Indeed, this research emphasizes the importance of improving students' speaking skill since it is considered as a complex and challenging skill due to the efforts that students do when they interact or communicate. Then, it sheds light on the effectiveness of watching movies on enhancing the speaking skill due to its benefits and likeability from the majority of students to develop their speaking proficiency. In this study, it is hypothesised that English students at Mila University Centre would display positive attitudes towards watching movies as a language learning tool to develop their speaking skill if they are exposed to it inside and outside the classroom. Two means of collecting data are submitted to both teachers and students at Mila University Centre. In order to gather the necessary information, we relied on a questionnaire delivered to students and an interview delivered to teachers. The results obtained from teachers’ interview and students’ questionnaire show that the majority of teachers of speaking/listening modules use movies as a teaching tool to help their students to enhance the speaking skill since they encounter various problems when they communicate, interact, and perform something orally whether in the classroom or outside. In fact, the obtained findings show that both teachers and students have positive attitudes towards the use of movies to enhance students’ speaking skill. However, some teachers do not use movies in their speaking/listening sessions due to time limitation.