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The Benefits of Watching American TV Dramas

Zhao Junzhou

Nowadays, with more and more accesses to America, watching American TV dramas has gradually become a prevailing trend among the youths, who are high on them. However, various people hold distinctive views on it. Some people believe that watching American TV dramas can foster their sense of language, while others maintain that the American TV dramas may play a negative role in young people's lives and study on account of different cultural backgrounds. To be frank, I sustain that watching American TV dramas can bring a variety of advantages to us. There are some justifications listed to support my argument.

To begin with, it is indisputable that watching American TV dramas can enhance the youths’ sense of language. For one thing, it can help them to practice oral English and listening competence as well as learn some idioms. The reason is that it is widely considered to be one of the most effective approaches to make the youths be exposed to authentic commutative context. For another, watching American TV dramas is conducive to them to consolidate what they have acquired in classroom. In addition, American TV dramas can broaden the youths’horizon. They can avail themselves of this opportunity to have a good command of American culture, customs, lifestyles, science and so on. Furthermore, watching American TV dramas can cultivate the youths’interest in English. Appreciating the fantastic and interesting stories, they can acquire some fixed expressions, obtain pleasure and experience exotic taste. Therefore, many English teachers adopt American TV dramas to trigger students’study motivation. Last but not least, they can attain American self-made spirit. The youths can learn how to strive to pursue and achieve their dream. To some extent, it can develop their independent personality and persistent and creative spirit.

In a nutshell, we can naturally draw a reasonable and solid conclusion that watching American TV dramas not only can promote the youth’s English proficiency and broaden their horizon, but also it fosters their study interest and self-made spirit. Therefore, I strongly and firmly uphold the youth to watch American TV dramas on account their numerous benefits.

The Benefits of Watching American TV Dramas

Zhou Jing

Nowadays, the original American TV dramas are so prevailing among the youths in China with the growth of internet TV. Considering that they bring a variety of benefits to the youths, they are extremely high on American TV dramas. However, people’s views on them vary from person to person, which causes heated debate on it. Some people believe that watching American TV dramas can foster their language sense while other people maintain the American TV dramas may play a negative role in young people's lives and study on account of different cultural background and social system. As for me, I prefer the former view rather than the latter. There are some justifications listed to support my argument.

To begin with, it is generally accepted that watching American TV dramas can promote the youth s’English proficiency. Firstly, appreciating the fantastic and amusing stories, they can enhance their listening competence and oral English by means of imitating the native speakers’ pronunciation and intonation. Secondly, they can improve their overall range of vocabulary and help them with their sentence structures, and ultimately, they have to make the English their own. In addition, definitely, it can foster the youths’pragmatic ability. In terms of Chinese English learners, they don’t know to appropriately use English in special context. The learner will have to get some genuine interaction going in order to use the language he has learnt. The youths can be exposed to genuine context so that they enhance their commutative ability via watching American TV dramas. Eventually, watching American TV dramas are generally considered to be one effective means to broaden the youths’ horizon. On the one hand, watching American TV dramas can make the youths have acquaintance with American culture, including lifestyles, customs, economy and science and technology and so on. On the other hand, it can help them have access to American spirit, covering self-made spirit, adventurous spirit and innovative spirit.

In short, we can naturally draw a reasonable and solid conclusion that watching American TV dramas can promote the youth s’ English proficiency; meanwhile it can foster the youths’communicative competency and broaden their horizon. By all means, I uphold the youths to be exposed to American TV dramas.