The impact of watching English movies on learning English as a second language: Perspective of Bangladeshi private university students.

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to look at how the English movies influence the tertiary level students of Bangladesh to learn English as their second language. Furthermore, the study also determined to find out if the participants agree that English movies are useful in acquiring the language better with regard to the four language skills. To get various and deeper perceptions, the researcher looked individually at the students from both the Bangla and English medium and inspected if movies have greater contributions to learn the English language than their institutional knowledge. The researcher opted for mixed method research methodology and collected data from 42 participants from two different private universities. The quantitative data are shown in pie charts using excel and qualitative data are shown through various themes. Moreover. To determine the influence of the movies, relationship with some factors such as educational background, age, subtitles has also been discussed. According to the findings, watching movies has aided participants in enhancing their speaking abilities,listening abilities, vocabulary, enthusiasm, and motivation, as well as reducing anxiety and stress. However, along with advantages, disadvantages on the learning process have also been found in this research.