Abstract Learning a foreign language well does not simply mean mastering its pronunciation‚ grammar and vocabulary. In fact‚ the learning of a language is inseparable from the learning of its culture. It shows that students not only should grasp vocabularies‚ grammar and pronunciation，but also properly grasp the relationship between language teaching and culture understanding. It’s clear that language teaching is indeed culture teaching. It is necessary and urgent to teach not only cultural knowledge
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integral part of foreign language learning‚ so finding deferent ways to improve such skills would be a mental disturbance of any language instructors. Here I’m going to offer a proposal to make use of movies for improving pronunciation. So he objective of this study is to determine the effect of watching movies on improving pronunciation skills. In order to reach the objective‚ I randomly selected 50 intermediate students‚ and then they were divided into 2 groups‚ namely experimental and control. Each group
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years. Among those in the media which have changed languages through the years are the movies. And because of this‚ the level of English proficiency decreased. Incapability to speak English fluently and efficiently is one of the realities faced by many young Filipinos today. There are many reasons to explain the decline in English proficiency but the proliferation of television shows such as tagalizing English movies is one of the attributors. With this‚ how could we expect the young generation to speak
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Masaryk University in Brno Faculty of Education Department of English Language and Literature TIPS FOR USING FANTASY BOOKS WITH TEENAGERS Diploma Thesis Brno 2009 Supervisor: Written by: PhDr. Alena Kašpárková Kateřina Vařechová 1 Acknowledgements: I would like to give special thanks to my supervisor‚ PhDr. Alena Kašpárková‚ for her kind help and advice. She willingly commented on my thesis. 2 Declaration: I declare that I worked on the thesis on my own
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Watching movies is a wasting of time. Movies or motion pictures have been around ever since man first discovered and invented cameras‚ and‚ in fact‚ even before that‚ through animate cartoons. It is a form of entertainment that is extremely popular in the world at large‚ thanks to dedicated filmmakers‚ modern advanced CGI (Computer-Generated Image) and increase in well-trained actors. However‚ in my opinion‚ watching movies is a huge waste of time for several important reasons. First
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steadily utilizing this method of watching movies or television series in order to acquire a second language. Every person differs in his or her own method and strategies for learning a new language; however‚ there are a great number of learners who have had positive results using this method. Almost all of these cases were related to young children before or in their critical period to acquire a language. Therefore‚ there are people who claim that watching American movies actually facilitates Second Language
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Adults Enjoy Watching Animated Movies In the past years‚ animated movies are known to have reached out only to children‚ but recently there has been an increase in adult audiences too. There are some reasons why adults are attracted to watch animated movies. Many have claimed that animated movies have become more realistic‚ appealing and a relaxing agent to adults. First‚ the storyline of animated movies are getting more and more realistic. Adults find that recent animated movies are real as they
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Running Head: WATCHING A MOVIE AT HOME OR IN A THEATER Watching a Movie At Home or In a Theater Qumisien Hennings Everest University Online Composition I-119 The new move Twilight is coming soon and I am faced with a decision‚ should I wait until it comes on television? Or should I pay to see it when it comes out? Although both sounds like reasonable choices‚ but watching the movies at home on television is better than watching the movie at the theater. The reason is because you do not have
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Language Learning & Technology http://llt.msu.edu/vol14num1/winkegasssydorenko.pdf February 2010‚ Volume 14‚ Number 1 pp. 65–86 THE EFFECTS OF CAPTIONING VIDEOS USED FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LISTENING ACTIVITIES1 Paula Winke‚ Susan Gass‚ and Tetyana Sydorenko Michigan State University This study investigated the effects of captioning during video-based listening activities. Second- and fourth-year learners of Arabic‚ Chinese‚ Spanish‚ and Russian watched three short videos with and without captioning
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The Effects of Horror Movies on Children By Timothy Sexton‚ eHow Contributor The implicit‚ and often explicit‚ intention of horror movies is to scare people. The fright engendered by horror movies can have residual psychological effects for years. Two studies‚ "Tales from the Screen: Enduring Fright Reactions to Scary Media" and another‚ funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)‚ both concluded that exposure horror movies may have long-lasting adverse effects on children. 1. Anxiety
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