Résumé:
The current investigation represents a study that aims to describe and analyze the effectiveness of
movie clips and videos as pedagogical and motivational tools, alongside their usefulness in
developing EFL learners’ oral communication skills and interaction strategies, especially, in
higher education. Henceforth, this dissertation targets some of the crucial issues about the
potentiality of movie clips and videos, their implementation, together with the teachers’ and
students’ perspectives on their incorporation in the academia, so that both, teacher and students
can cope themselves to function effectively in such demanding technological-era. This research’s
foremost objective, thus, is an attempt to determine the significance of such innovative tools at
university along with articulation on instructional appropriateness, motivation and the
development of students’ autonomy. In order to ensure the relationship, we have hypothesized
that, if students at University learn throughout movie clips and videos, their level of achievement
in terms of communication skills will increase. In this prospect, a blend of methods that
combines between the quantitative and qualitative so as to cover the main aspects of the
investigated issues. According to the research findings and results that we have obtained, the
majority of teachers confessed that using movie clips and videos, has its positive outcomes,
because students’ involvement and level of motivation attest to its success