The Role of subtitling in Enhancing EFL University Students’ Listening Comprehension Skill

Abstract

The main goal of this study is to examine the effectiveness of using subtitling to enhance listening comprehension abilities of foreign language learners in the Algerian context. A questionnaire was addressed to English third-year students at Mohamed Seddik Ben Yahia – Jijel University, to see if there is a positive change in the students’ listening comprehension abilities when they listen to subtitled videos. The results that we obtained from the research tools do confirm the hypotheses “Using subtitled media in the learning process will result in a significant difference between the mean scores of listening comprehension performance of the students”. In addition, the participants reported that they believe that it may well help them develop their listening comprehension abilities. Likewise, the teachers of listening comprehension all agreed on the suitability of using subtitled educational videos to help EFL university students, improve their listening comprehension skills.