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    Examining the effect of viewing captioned english movie clips on EFL learner's listening comprehension
    (university of Oum-El-Bouaghi, 2016) Boukhahlfa, Roumaissa; Khoualdi, Samiha
    In recent years teachers have grown increasingly aware that there is no guaranteed teaching method and that a variety of technical and methodological resources are needed in EFL classrooms. This pushed them to keep searching for motivating teaching resources. One way of bringing variety into the classroom is by using movie clips. However, without effective learning support EFL students are likely to encounter difficulties in comprehending the movie clips' content. Hence, the present study attempts to investigate the effect of viewing english movie clips accompanied with english captions on students' listening comprehension. Accordingly, the current study hypothesizes that if EFL learners were exposed to captioned english movie clips, their listening comprehension would improve. To confirm this hypothesis, a quasi-experimental design was carried out at the english department of Larbi Ben M'Hidi university in Oum-El-Bouaghi during the second term of the academic year 2015/2016. To this end, 36 LMD second year students were selected. Participants were randomly assigned to two groups: an experimental group which was made up of 18 students and a control group which included 18 students as well. The participants firstly took a pre-test that contained four activities related to the movie clip they watched in order to determine their current level in listening comprehension. Throughout the treatment period which lasted a one month the experimental group received the treatment which viewed four english movie clips with captions while the control group watched them without subtitles. After the treatment sessions, a post-test was administered to both groups with the aim of evaluating their improvement in listening comprehension. The results drawn from the dependent and independent t-test indicated that there was a significant difference between the control group and the treatment group as this latter outperformed the non-treatment group. This investigation then proved that captioned english movie clips are effective in developing students' listening comprehension. Thus, confirming the hypothesis of the study.