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Film Subtitles and Listening Comprehension Ability of Intermediate EFL Learners

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The present study represents the efforts to determine whether exposing the language learners to an intralingually subtitled film can improve their listening comprehension or not. In order to find that out, an experiment in which two groups of five intermediate level students studying in Chabahar maritime university were exposed to a series of videos was designed. One group watched the videos with English subtitle and the other group without any subtitles. After using independent T-test the p value (p=.000 <.05) shows that the ESG outperformed the WSG.

DOI 10.11648/j.ijalt.20160203.12
Published in International Journal of Applied Linguistics and Translation (Volume 2, Issue 3, June 2016)
Page(s) 29-32
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Keywords

Film, Subtitles, Listening Comprehension Ability

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  • English Department, Faculty of Management and Humanities, Chabahar Maritime University, Chabahar, Iran

  • English Department, Faculty of Management and Humanities, Chabahar Maritime University, Chabahar, Iran

  • English Department, Ferdowsi University, Faculty of Letters and Humanities, Mashhad, Iran

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