Investigating the Use of Movie clips and Videos as Motivational and Pedagogical Tools in Teaching and Learning EFL: The Case of Language and Communication Master One Students at Abdelhamid Ibn Badis University

Abstract

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