Investigating the effects of watching films on EFL students' pop culture awareness
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2014
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university of Oum-El-Bouaghi
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This dissertation is concerned with the use of films in language classes and its advantages in enhancing the EFL students' pop culture awareness. Additionally, an attempt was made to investigate the teachers' and students' perceptions about the role of culture in language teaching and learning. The quasi-experimental study explored the effects of watching films on the students' level of pop culture awareness. A pre-test, post-test group research design was used. The sample was constituted of two classes of first year LMD students at the university of Larbi Ben M'Hidi. A total of 28 students were involved in this study.The experimental group was exposed to the target language pop culture for a total of eight sessions. The sessions spanned over 2 month; with the control group, a script's reading was used. Data are collected from two cultural quizzes and the statistical tool of the Independent Samples test was used to determine whether there were significant intergroup differences, and a paired t test also was used. Another qualitative design was followed, a questionnaire for teachers and another for students. The results of the study show that the experimental group outperformed the control group (11.0769>8.80). Films are recommended to be used, within language lessons. The results from the questionnaires show that, on the one hand, teachers (87.50%) believe in the relationship between language and culture. On the other hand, students (100%) believe that culture learning is beneficial. Finally, suggestions for future research and limitations of the study are presented.
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Teaching : english : EFL : audio visual matérial : film