Abstract:
The current study aims to explore the students' attitudes towards the use of filmbased
technique during listening session to improve their communicative competence.
The work is mainly concerned with motivating the use of films during the listening
sessions and raising the amount of interest given to the listening skill. It also attempts
to shed light on the importance of the modern functional view of language through the
focus on improving the students' communicative competence and define it as the
ultimate goal of the process of learning/teaching language. The basic hypothesis
adopted in this study sets out that if teachers of listening credit adapt film-based
technique during their sessions, then the students' listening skills may be developed;
therefore, their oral communicative competence could be improved. The method of
this research is quite correlational. The data were gathered through self-completion
questionnaires administered to first-year License students at the University of Jijel.
The results have shown that film-based technique is very adequate for developing
listening skills as way to improve communicative competence. On the basis of these
results, the hypothesis was confirmed in that students need to be provided with an
advantageous technique to achieve the communicative competence sought
