The Effectiveness of Using a Pedagogical Movie Based Program in Developing Aural-Oral Communication Skills of Faculty of Education English Majors

The present study aimed at investigating The Effectiveness of Using a Pedagogical Movie Based Program in Developing Aural-Oral Communication Skills of Faculty of Education English Majors. It has been noted by the researcher that many faculty of education English majors have a significant problem in the aural-oral communication skills when they are compared to the writing and reading comprehension skills. After reviewing the literature and the way such students have been taught English, the researcher decided to teach them such skills using a course built around American movies. He chose “Forrest Gump”, since that movie contains all the cultural aspects the researcher wants to address. The study adopted the one-group pretest–posttest design in which thirty students were chosen for the experiment as an experimental group and they were taught using the movie-based program. The tools of the study included the movie-based program, the listening test, the speaking test, the needs analysis questionnaire, and the speaking assessment rubrics. After implementing the movie-based program, post testing was undertaken and the data obtained were analyzed using the t test. The results revealed that there were significant differences between means of scores obtained by the experimental group in the pretest and posttest of the listening test and the speaking test, favoring the post tests. Discussion of the findings, recommendations and suggestions for further research were presented.