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Subtitled and Unsubtitled Movie and Listening Comprehension

Abstract:

This research project was developed with the educational purpose of investigating the effect of watching a subtitled or unsubtitled movie on EFL learners’ listening comprehension. The study was developed at Universidad Técnica de Ambato with 53 students from the second semester of Pedagogía de los Idiomas Nacionales y Extranjeros major: 28 students from second semester A and 25 students from second semester B. The research project was quasi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design. The researcher randomly assigned the second semester A to treatment and the second semester B to control. The experimental group was exposed to a movie with intralingual subtitles, while the control group was exposed to the same movie without subtitles. After watching each part of the movie, students from both groups took listening comprehension tests. To analyze the collected information the Wilcoxon test was used. Finally, the results showed that the subtitled movie had positive effects in the development of the listening comprehension.