| The world today is characterized by globalization, intercultural communication, and boom of economic and technological development. As lingua franca, English listening, speaking and intercultural communication is becoming more and more important in all walks of life.The traditional way of listening and speaking class seems no longer meet the needs of EFL learners and needs to be further perfected. Thus, an effective way of improving listening, speaking and intercultural abilities is urgently to be explored and developed.English movies possess unique merits involving various means of information transfer such as subtitles, speech sounds, images and exclusive paralinguistic. Therefore, it can motivate EFL learners to participate in English activities initiatively and actively.This research aims at making English teachers and EFL learners pay more attention to English movies as a resourceful language learning and teaching material, providing referent data to audio-visual course and facilitating transformation of education.In this study, an investigation of the English-movies-based audio-visual course was conducted by the author in sixteen universities in Tianjin. The results show that English movies are very popular among college EFL learners but actually there are few universities offering this kind of course. During the research, three corpora, EMSC (English Movies Subtitles Corpus) built by the author, COLSEC (College Learner’s Spoken English Corpus) and NCE (New College English) were employed to make quantitative analysis of the linguistic features of English movies with the help of computer. The results indicate that English movies are extensively helpful to our college EFL learners’listening, speaking and intercultural communicative competence, and thus should be used as the major teaching material for college audio-visual course. |
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