Abstract

As technology is developing rapidly, foreign films and videos are much more easily for us Chinese to get access to. Therefore, learning English only from class seem too boring for most of the English learners and learning English from English films and videos becomes a new fashion. Thus, it’s time for us to doubt that if its a completely good idea to do so. Does this kind of English learning method have negative impact on English while it brings a lot of positive impacts on them? In this case, writing this thesis is to state the both impacts of English films and videos and to tell those self-assess students how to choose the right ones. In this thesis, different impacts that films and videos I have watched on me are also included. This thesis is to encourage and lead those learners to the right way of learning English from films and videos.

Key words: positive and negative impacts; English films and videos; English learners

摘要

随着科学技术的发展，国人可以更轻松得观看外国的影视作品。因此，仅仅从课堂学习英语对大多数的英语学习者而言变得无趣，而从英语影视作品中学习英语成了一种时尚。既然如此，我们该考虑下是否这是一个完全好的学习方法。在带来许多积极影响的同时，是否也有消极影响呢？因此，写这篇论文是为了声明英语影视作品对英语学习者的两面影响，以及该如何选择合适影视作品来学习。
在论文中，还包括各种影视作品对作者个人的影响。这篇论文主要是鼓励和引导这些英语学习者到正确的学习方式上来。

关键词：积极和消极影响；影视作品；英语学习者

1 Introduction   
1.1 Research Background
With the globalization of the world, English gradually becomes the most widely used language all over the world.In most counties where they choose English as a second language have already set up this course in their schools such as China. Recently, the atmosphere of learning English in China is becoming more and more heavily. However, the English learners’ interest are badly injured when they are facing such a different and difficult language. They feel that they are forced to learn English and a lot of English learners give up. As technology develop quite rapidly, people can get assess to English films and videos easily. Therefore, they may learn English from those works. No matter learning English from classes or from films and videos, all English learners want their methods to be efficient. In this case, many experts and teachers are gradually starting to be concerned about the positive and negative impacts of films and videos on English learners.