Raising EFL Students’ Intercultural Awareness through Movies in English Language at MMUTO
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Date
2023
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Université Mouloud Mammeri
Abstract
The present work aims at investigating the role of movies in raising EFL students’
intercultural awareness in the Department of English at MMUTO. The study has set three
main objectives. The first objective is to explore whether watching movies aids EFL students
to move from the first level to the last level of Baker’s theory of ICA. The second objective is
to investigate whether EFL students misunderstand or understand a cultural aspect while
watching movies in English language. The third objective is to discover the attitudes of EFL
students towards watching movies in English language and the efficiency of the last mentioned
in improving Master I students’ intercultural awareness. In order to meet the objectives of the
study, Baker’s framework of Intercultural Awareness in his Article entitled Intercultural
Awareness: Modeling and understanding of Cultures in Intercultural Communication through
English as a Lingua Franca (2011) is adopted. We gathered our data from movies given to
students to watch and from a questionnaire distributed to them as a research technique in
order to get reliable data. As far as the analyses data is concerned, the mixed method
research combining both qualitative and quantitative methods are adopted. The qualitative
data are analyzed using Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA) while the SPSS is used to
analyze the quantitative ones. The majority of students declared that movies are motivating.
Foremost those movies help students to promote their language skills, they serve as a medium
of entertainment and of imparting cultural knowledge, learning and understanding cultures as
well as raising their ICA. As final findings, the results indicate that students have positive
attitudes towards watching movies, and those movies proved their efficiency in raising their
ICA.
Description
81 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. (+CD-Rom)
Keywords
Culture, Language and Culture, Types of Culture, Movies, Interculturality, Intercultural Awareness, EFL Students’ Attitudes, Intercultural Competence, Intercultural Communicative Competence
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Language and Communication