B.S.GOMATHI1, Dr. M. RICHARD ROBERT RAA2, Dr T.S.GEETHA3
1 Assistant Professor (Selection Grade), Department of English, Velalar College of Engineering and Technology, Erode District, Tamil Nadu, India,
Email: gomathirkv@gmail.com
2Assistant Professor (SG), Department of English, Rathinam College of Arts and Science (Autonomous) Eachanari Coimbatore – 641 024.
3Associate Professor, Department of English, J.K.K.Nataraja College of Arts and Science, Kumarapalayam, Namakkal Dt., Tamil Nadu, India
Abstract
The objective of the study is to explore the use of vocabulary influenced by media with special reference to the movie “Slum dog Millionaire”. Various tasks were used to make aware of the vocabulary learning by the first year under graduate engineering students of an institution at south India.
The English movie “Slum dog Millionaire (2008)” was shown to the students. A vocabulary test was conducted for the students before and after viewing the movie as pre-test and post-test. The scores of all the students have been analyzed. From the analysis, it was clearly known that there was a marginal improvement in vocabulary learning and the reason for the improvement was identified from the …show more content…
Mohammad Zohrabi (2015) showed a video with subtitle to control group. Results from the questionnaire suggest that learners paid most attention to captions, followed by video and audio, and acquired most words by associating them with visual images. Pedagogical implications of this study are that captioned video tends to aid recognition of written word forms and the learning of word meaning, while non-captioned video tends to improve listening comprehension as it facilitates recognition of aural word forms. Finally they concluded that the use of movies with subtitles can improve students’ engagement in learning and retrieval of new lexical