Abstract

With the globalization of the world economy, English plays a very important role in the world. Our country urgently needs a lot of outstanding talents for English, but the communicative competence of the students and the effectiveness of English learning have always been in an embarrassing situation. Thus, this thesis is mainly on the effectiveness of English audio-visual learning through the adoption of the English movies, in order to improve communicative competence of the college students.
The thesis draws a conclusion that most of the students have a positive attitude to English audio-visual learning assisted by English movies, which has obvious advantages than textbook-based learning. It is a practicable and effective way to improve students’ English audio-visual learning ability. It can stimulate students’ interest in learning English, thereby enhance the students’ enthusiasm and initiative of learning English, improve students’ English audio-visual learning proficiency and have a significant effect on developing their integrated language skills in a relaxed atmosphere. Therefore, this method to improve students’ English audio-visual learning ability is feasible and can achieve better effects.

Keywords:  English movie  College students  English audio-visual learning  Effectiveness

摘要

随着世界经济的全球化，英语在国际交流中起着越来越重要的作用。在我国，经济的迅速发展急需大量优异的英语人才，然而，现在大学英语口语水平和英语学习却一直处于尴尬境地。因此，本文主要研究英文电影在英语视听学习的有效性，希望对国内大学英语视听学习有所帮助,并以此提高学生的英语学习交际能力。
研究结果显示：大多数学生对英文电影辅助英语视听学习持一种肯定的态度。利用英文电影辅助英语视听学习比传统英语学习具有明显优势。英文电影是辅助英语视听学习的一种有效途径，能够激发学生的英语学习兴趣，进而提高学生学习英语的积极性和主动性。在轻松愉快的学习氛围中，提高学生的英语视听水平，并对提高学生的综合语言运用能力有着显著效果。因此，利用英文电影提高学生的视听学习能力是切实可行的，能够实现更好的学习效果。

关键词：英文电影；大学生；英语视听学习；有效性

Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Background of the Research
 Language is a tool for communication. In the four basic skills which are listening, speaking, reading and writing, listening is the most important skill. According to a survey in the United States a person during the time he is awake spends 70% of his or her time on all forms of communication activities, 11% is spent for writing and 15% is spent for reading, 32% for speaking, and at least 42% of the time for listening, (Cooper, 1998) which is sufficient to prove the importance of listening. With the developing of information technology and the growing trend of globalization, English learning is more and more significant in the world.