English Movies as Audiovisual Resources to Improve Speaking Skills

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English movies, Audiovisual resources Speaking skills, Language teaching, EFL

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This investigation was action research carried out at a public university in Ecuador, where the intervention lasted four months with preservice teachers at the B1 level, from twenty to thirty years old. This study aimed to explore the effect of the routine of applying audiovisual resources, such as watching movies during students' free time, to focus on vocabulary learning, pronunciation improvement, and listening and speaking development. A fifteen-question survey was applied to analyze how beneficial this extracurricular activity was, along with the field notes. Results showed that movies were an attractive element as they provided exposure to natural language, cultural knowledge, expanded vocabulary, and offered more opportunities to listen to the real language and comment on what as observed; participants also felt confident about interacting and participating in classes showing their progress in listening comprehension and oral production which gave the necessary criteria to answer the research question.

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2025-10-01

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López López, J. E., Campoverde López, J. S., & Bonilla Tenesaca, J. R. (2025). English Movies as Audiovisual Resources to Improve Speaking Skills. Street Art & Urban Creativity, 11(6), 147–163. https://doi.org/10.62161/sauc.v11.5847

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Vol. 11 No. 6 (2025)

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