EFL Students’ Attitudes Towards the Impact of Watching Films on Enhancing their Understanding of Collocations

Abstract

The study in hand that is entitled ‘EFL Students’ Attitudes Towards the Impact of Watching Films in Enhancing their Understanding of Collocations’ help us to get a new method in teaching collocations. The main problem that we found in teaching and learning collocations is that learners’ misuse of these expressions in context. This problem may be due to the old methods that are followed in teaching collocations. Those methods do not help learners to use in specific context. They just help them how to master their structures. For that we suggest exposing learners to an English speaking film, namely Harry Potter, which we think will help learners in acquiring and using collocations in real context. It is hypothesized that if watching films will have a positive impact on enhancing EFL learners’ understanding of collocations. In this experiment, we adopt two kinds of means of research, a teacher questionnaire and an experimental design. We administered teacher questionnaire to examine their attitudes towards the use of films in EFL classrooms and we adopt the experimental design (pre-test, treatment and post-test) in order to see the effectiveness of using films in acquiring collocations. The results of the questionnaire and the experimental design demonstrate that film helps intermediate learners to acquire collocations and use them in appropriate context. The hypothesis has thus been confirmed.