The Educational Use of Subtitled Audiovisual Material to Teach English as a Foreign Language

Language teaching methods have undergone major changes over the years, and the advancement of technology is the reason for some of these groundbreaking changes. Modern technological systems are constantly developing at a surprising pace, so language teaching methods cannot lag behind; they need to take advantage of all the available options. Due to the entertaining nature of movies, TV series, and video games, they can be great resources to teach learners the natural use of language so that both cognitive load and boredom can be diminished. Since low-level learners cannot understand every instance of language, subtitled audiovisual material can suit them best. However, unstructured use of subtitled material is not appropriate for classrooms; for this reason, the present article has designed some tasks to provide language teachers with a few examples of how audiovisual subtitled material can be employed for maximum effect.

کلیدواژه ها:

Audiovisual Material ، Subtitles ، English ، Language Teaching