The Effect of Interest-Based Movie Clips on Motivation and Oral Proficiency of Intermediate Iranian EFL Learners

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of interest-based movie clips on motivation and oral proficiency of intermediate Iranian EFL learners. The participants of the study included 90 Iranian male and female students who were selected out of initial 150 intermediate EFL learners taking the English Unlimited Placement test. They were divided into 3 different groups: 30 in one control group, 30 in experimental group A, and the other 30 in experimental group B. One data collecting instrument (Dornyei’s motivation questionnaire) as well as two assessment instruments (The English Unlimited Placement Test and IELTS Speaking tests) were utilized to examine the formulated hypothesis. In order to carry out this study, a quasi-experimental design including a pretest, treatment and a posttest was selected. The experimental group A were given a list of 20 movie clips and asked to choose only 10. But the learners in experimental group B only watched the movie clips assigned by their teacher. The control group learners did not watch any movie clips. The results of IELTS speaking post test administered at the end of the treatment revealed that movie clips significantly affected motivation of L2 learners. In addition, the data analyses of the obtained results showed that watching interest-based movie clips notably improved the L2 learners’ oral proficiency.

کلیدواژه ها:

motivation ، EFL learners ، placement ، ILETS ، test