The Effect of the Exposure to an English Speaking Film on the Acquisition of Formulaic Expressions:

Abstract

This research that is entitled ‘The Effect of the Exposure to an English speaking Film on the Acquisition of Formulaic Expression’ helps us to get a new method in teaching formulaic expression. The main problem that we found in teaching and learning formulaic expressions’ is that learners’ misuse of these expressions in context. This problem may be due to the old methods that are followed in teaching formulaic expressions. Those methods do not help learners to use formulaic expressions 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 formulaic expressions in real context. It is hypothesized that if teachers at the Department of English, in both Mohamed Sadik Ben Yahia and Glory School, exposed learners to English speaking films, their learners would acquire and use formulaic expressions in real contexts. In this research, we adopt two kinds of means of research, a teacher questionnaire and an experimental design. We administered teacher questionnaire to oral expressions teachers in both institutions to see their attitudes towards the use of films EFL classrooms and we adopt the experimental design (pre-test, treatment and post-test) in order to see the effectiveness of film in acquiring formulaic expressions. The results of the questionnaire and the experimental design demonstrate that film helps intermediate learners to acquire formulaic expressions and use them in appropriate context. The hypothesis has thus been confirmed.