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The effect of subtitling on the enhancement of EFL learners’ listening comprehension
Ghoneam, Noha Sobhy1.
In Egypt most foreign-language audiovisual materials are viewed in the original audio version
with the Arabic subtitles. With the increasing access to audiovisual material, EFL learners are
more exposed to oral input in English than ever before. However, what has unfairly remained
unresolved is the use of subtitles. Thus, the present study represents an effort to empirically
examine the effect of feature movies with and without subtitle on listening comprehension of
Egyptian EFL learners. The participants of this study were randomly selected from a larger pool
of 180 fourth year students from the Department of English Language, Minoufia University,
Egypt. 104 participants were randomly chosen and then randomly assigned to the two
experimental groups and the control group. The first experimental group viewed the movie with
English subtitles (ESG), the second group viewed the movie with Arabic subtitles (ASG), and
the control group viewed the movie without subtitles (WSG). After screening the 14 excerpts
from 8 movies, 14 multiple-choice listening comprehension tests were administered in order to
evaluate their listening comprehensions. Then, each group was asked to complete a questionnaire
in order to know their opinions about the way the movie was presented. In the last session, all
participants sat on the listening section from the TOEFL test. The results of the data analysis
revealed that for Multiple Choice tests, the subtitles groups outperformed the WSG, and ASG
performed better than the ESG; however, on the TOEFL test, the analysis of groups‟
performance revealed a better mean score for the ESG compared to other groups.
Affiliation:
- Minoufia University, Egypt
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