英文电影对大学生英语听说能力的影响

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题目：观看英文电影对大学生英语听说能力的影响The Impact of Watching English Films on
College S tudents’ English Listening and
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观看英文电影对大学生英语听说能力的影响
摘要
本研究考察了观看英文电影对大学生英语听说能力的影响。

研究以广东白云学院的学生为对象，通过问卷调查、资料采集和比较分析等方法对观看英文电影对大学生英语听说能力的影响进行调查，依据百分比率对调查结果进行分析。

在探讨观看英文电影与大学生英语听说能力的相关性的同时，也分析了中国学生学习英语的现状，从而指出观看英文电影对大学生英语听说能力的影响。

本研究发现：观看英文电影对大学生英语听说能力的提高有着积极的促进作用。

因为通过观看英文电影能够更大地激发其对英语学习的兴趣，从而使得其听说能力在不知不觉中得到提高，这样也使“观看英文电影”成为集实用性、文化性和趣味性于一体的手段来提高大学生英语听说能力。

本文的研究结果对日后大学生英语听说能力的提高有一定的促进作用。

关键词：观看英文电影；英语听说能力；影响
THE IMPACT OF WATCHING ENGLISH FILMS ON COLLEGE STUDENTS’ ENGLISH LISTENING AND
SPEAKING
ABSTRACT
This research examines the impact of watching English films on the college students’English listening and speaking. And the research first examined in Guangdong Baiyun University. The questionnaires, information collections and contrast were required to investigate the impact of watching English films on the college students’ English listening and speaking and the percentage rate was used to analyze the data and results. The research not only discusses the relevance of watching English films and college students’ English listening and speaking, but also analyzes the current situation of Chinese students’English learning, therefore we pointed out the impact on improving college students’English listening and speaking. The finding of this research: watching English films plays a positive role in improving college students’English listening and speaking. As watching English films can easily arouse college students’interest in learning English, so their English listening and speaking skills get improvement without notice. Watching English films is becoming a more practical, more cultural and more interesting way to enhance college students’English listening and speaking. The results of the research are beneficial to the improvement of college students’ English listening and speaking skills.
Key Words: watching English Films; English Listening and Speaking; impact
Contents
1．Introduction (1)
1.1 The Importance of English Listening and Speaking (1)
1.2 Need of the Study (1)
1.3 Purpose of the Study (3)
2. Current Situation of Chinese Students’ English Learning (3)
2.1 Mainly Embodiments (4)
2.1.1 Mute English (4)
2.1.2 Exam-oriented English (4)
2.2 Main Reasons of Mute English and Exam-oriented English (5)
2.2.1 The Lack of English Language Environment (5)
2.2.2 Restrictions of Chinese Teaching and Learning Mode (5)
3．Research Design and Methodology (8)
3.1 Research Questions (9)
3.2 Subjects (9)
3.3 Research Designs and Treatments (10)
3.4 Data Analysis (11)
4. The Research Findings (14)
4.1 The Reasons of Watching English Films have Impacts on College Students’ English Listening and Speaking (14)
4.1.1 Different Styles of Using Words between Western Countries and China (14)
4.1.2 Different Mindset and Culture between Western Countries and China (14)
4.2 How to use English Films on Improving English Listening and Speaking (16)
4.2.1 Conversation and Scenarios Simulation (16)
4.2.2 Topic Discussion (16)
5. Conclusion (17)
5.1 Summary (18)
5.2 Suggestion (18)
Bibliography (18)
Acknowledgements (19)
Appendix (20)
1．Introduction
1.1The Importance of English Listening and Speaking
As our society has rapidly developed and the international exchange has constantly expanded and deepened, the international relationship is becoming closer and closer. English became the most widely used language in the world and the most important way to communicate with different countries among the foreign trades, therefore the demand of high proficiency in English increases gradually, especially the skills of English listening and speaking. The more proficient you are in English, especially in English listening and speaking, the more easily you can succeed in your career. That is one of the reasons why English listening and speaking becomes more and more important.
As we all know, there are also many other ways people can use to communicate with foreign traders, not only English, but English is the most effective way to communicate with different people from different countries simultaneously. For example, when you take part in an international conference or a lecture which hold for people from different countries, English must be the first choice.
Moreover, English, as a language, its true aim is communication. So only understanding what the foreigners talking about is not enough, we have to communicate with them, then we can learn more about their culture, their feeling and understand their real meaning, so the mistakes can be avoided as much as possible.
For so many reasons above, high proficiency in English listening and speaking is very important, necessary and essential.
1.2 Need of the Study
On one hand, English listening and speaking is very important, not only for your job, your trades but also for your life. Because we may meet foreigners in our daily life, listen to English songs, watch English films, or read English magazines. But when we do the things above, I don’t know how much we can really understand without misunderstandings. So we have to improve our English listening and speaking in an effective way otherwise we cannot
enjoy ourselves or devote ourselves in that wonderful English world.
On the other hand, as for us, the college students, we have to take part in many different kinds of test, such as the CET4, CET6, TEM4, TEM8, TOEFL, IELETS…… Listening is an essential section in that kind of exams, which is also the main reason leads to so many college students cannot pass the exam successfully, even though they did listening exercises again and again before the test. For this reason, more and more college students lost their confidence and gave up.
And one more important thing is that we began learning English since we were little children, which was a really long period which lasted over ten years, and now we are college students. As a formal situation, when people keep doing or practicing something, they will be good at it for certain, like the saying “More practice, more perfect.” But as for our Chinese college students, the result turns out oppositely. Not all of us who with over ten years English learning experience can speak English fluently. Most of us learn English and know English for a really long time, but also few of us can understand thoroughly when we talk with somebody else in English or cannot express our real meaning
Therefore we have to find an effective way to improve our English listening and speaking, which can catch attention, arouse interest and be full of enjoyment during taking the exercise. After the research, I found that watching English films is one of the effective ways to improve college students’English listening and speaking. Because English films have attractive stories, interesting characters, special roles, unique situation, specific culture background, different themes and different styles, which can catch college students’ attention, arouse college students’ interest and passion in practicing, and makes entertainment, learning into one. Furthermore college students can also know more customs and culture styles through watching English films which can be a great help to avoid the culture shocks, reduce misunderstandings and provide a good chance to get used to the normal speed of native English speakers.
In order to validate whether watching English films is an effective method to improve college students' English listening and speaking or not, we must study the impact of the watching English films on col lege students’ English listening and speaking. And what kind of impact does it have in improving college students’ English listening and speaking.
1.3 Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study as following:
First, we would like to analyze the current situation of Chinese students’ English learning, and to find out the reasons of Mute English and Exam-oriented English.
Second, we would like to find out the reasons why watching English films have influence on college students’ English listening and speaking.
Third, we would like to do the questionnaires to draw a conclusion that watching English films have active and huge impacts on improving college students' English listening and speaking.
Finally, in order to maintain and mend the daily study of improving college students’English listening and speaking, all of us devote our mind to study how to use English films to improve college students’ English listening and speaking, not only for entertainment.
And the aim of this study is to provide the impacts of watching English films for improving college student’s English listening and speaking.
2. Current Situation of Chinese Students’ English Learning
2.1 Mainly Embodiments
With the fierce competition of society, English becomes more and more important in social interaction and career development. At the same time, with a pressure of school education, English learning is not only the mission for adults, but also for children. Therefore, more and more parents who adhere to the rules “English learning should start from baby” “Cannot lose at the starting line”enforce their children to learn English. In their mind, the earlier you begin to learn English, the more easily you will succeed, and the higher score you get in the exam, the more easily you can get into the best school then you can get a good job. So no matter the teachers or the parents are only pay attention to the test and the score, the so-called English test capabilities, as a result, neglect the comprehensive ability of English, which made mute English and exam-oriented English appeared.
2.1.1 Mute English
Mute English is a kind of study that pays extreme attention to written English and neglects oral English under the traditional English teaching method and teaching mode of training English students’ ability.
That is to say, Mute English means somebody who learns English for a long period but cannot communicate well with others in English or somebody who understands every word of an article, but fails to read them out fluently and correctly. Just like the dumb who knows everything but cannot speak it out to express their real thoughts because of their disability.
2.1.2 Exam-oriented English
Exam-oriented English is a kind of English which treats exam and score as the purpose of learning and overlooks the English comprehensive skills. That is, Exam-oriented English learners often get a high score and perform perfectly in different kinds of exam. Moreover, they will study the question types, and mark out the key points of different kinds of exam. In a word, they only focus on the test and the certificates.
They often meet many difficulties and get into trouble, if they put what they have learned into use in the daily life. As they always put a great deal of emphasis on grammar, they need a long time to compose a perfect sentence which is match with the grammar, so they cannot
speak it out fluently without thinking.
2.2 Main Reasons of Mute English and Exam-oriented English
In the contemporary society, everyone learns English and we watch English advertising on TV, read English newspaper every day, so in daily life we get a lot of chances to get in touch with English. That is to say, everyone knows English, the difference is that you know more or less, you are proficient or ordinary. On this premise, why Mute English and Exam-oriented English still exist? Why is this? After investigated, we found the main reasons as follow:
2.2.1 The Lack of English Language Environment
Li Yang (2008)pointed out that learning English not only need to speak out, but also need to speak loudly and frequently. [1]
Let us recall our mother languages’ learning process. Since we were born, our parents and the people around us talk in our mother language every day. And they are always trying to communicate with us no matter whether we understand or not, as a result, our language ability gradually formed during that process. So, as for the language learners a good language environment is very important, which provides the chance to speak loudly and frequently, which can be a great help on improving their listening and speaking skills.
For college students, the training of English listening and speaking is extremely important. We need more practices on English listening and speaking to get improvement after understanding. However, we seldom communicate with others in English because there is no good English language environment. As we all know, people in daily life only use their mother language to communicate with others, if you speak English at that time, they will feel strange and laugh at you. Because of this, for most college students can only practice speaking English during having lessons, but the fact is that the time of classes is very limited, not long enough for everybody to express their ideas.
Besides, after class, it is a hard job to find someone who is willing to do the practice together. In the end, things we learned from classes cannot put into use except having lessons.
So the lack of English language environment is one of the reasons of Mute English and Exam-oriented English.
2.2.2 Restrictions of Chinese Teaching and Learning Mode。