The entertainment industry plays a vital role in enhancing individual language skills aside from providing us with entertainment. Watching a movie or live TV shows provides the audience with an opportunity to learn the skills of the language being used in a more enjoyable manner than we do in class. This paper will discuss the role of entertainment in language learning by explaining three ways on how watching movies improves our language.
Firstly, watching movies improves our listening skills. While watching a movie, people tend to pay a lot of attention to what the characters say to one another so has to get the flow of the movie. By paying attention to what the characters say, the audience get used to what native speakers say, which improves our listening skills. In addition, the characters usually use English phrases and slang words which are not in the dictionary (Zhu et al., 2015) .
Delegate your assignment to our experts and they will do the rest.
Secondly, watching movies improves our speaking skills. According to Zhu et al., (2015), English movies are meant for native speakers and not for English learners. Therefore, listening to a native English speakers’ converse with one another in the movie, will help the audience understand how to link words and construct grammatically correct sentences when we speak. This will help improve our fluency. According to Kabooha (2016), it is important to watch movies with friends and try to speak the same words being used in the movie after watching because it perfects your grammar.
Thirdly, watching movies improves the viewers’ pronunciations in English. In most cases, English learners have a problem to pronounce English words correctly. Watching movies and listening to native English characters speak with one another will help these learners hear how English terms are pronounced correctly. In other cases, these learners can switch on subtitles and see how the words are actually written (Kabooha, 2016) .
Reference
Kabooha, R. H. (2016). Using Movies in EFL Classrooms: A Study Conducted at the English Language Institute (ELI), King Abdul-Aziz University. English Language Teaching , 9 (3), 248.
Zhu, Y., Kiros, R., Zemel, R., Salakhutdinov, R., Urtasun, R., Torralba, A., & Fidler, S. (2015). Aligning books and movies: Towards story-like visual explanations by watching movies and reading books. In Proceedings of the IEEE international conference on computer vision (pp. 19-27).
