Authentic Language Learning in On-line Native Environment: Using a Film-based Concordancer to Enhance EFL Freshmen's Colloquial Comprehension

• Main Authors: Yung-Chang Hsu, 許永昌
• Other Authors: Jie-Chi Yang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/15528220023695191361

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 網路學習科技研究所 === 93 === English is considered as the most frequently used international language, however, being an EFL (English as Foreign Language) country, Taiwan has faced upon a major obstacle in the colloquial field of English, in which that lacks of cultural understanding and insufficient language environment for practice.This research aims to construct a “film-based concordancer system”, which differs from former research systems that were mainly based on “text research”. This system formulates subtitles from Movies (DVD) by science technology and arranges it into source language storage. After that, a complete set of search engine is introduced to retrieve subtitles of the prescribed movie from the source language system, which also play out the scenes where these subtitles were spoken.Lastly, put this system program into first year university English class as an experiment. This experiment is based on the before-and-after result of colloquial English understanding ability of students. Forty-eight freshmen are selected in this experiment. They are divided equally into experimental and control groups. They are given language search systems to comprehend colloquial language. Results show that students understand better through the guidance of the film subtitle language system, which further proofs that inducing colloquial language situations through movie clips are better off understandable than categorizing it in text. Furthermore, questionnaires are drawn up for the users in order to evaluate and find out their attitude towards the system. The results in the questionnaires show that attitudes of students from the film subtitle language system having more certainties than those from the text language system. Finally, find out the motivation of students in different forms of language search system and phenomenon occurred during learning process through interview. Result shows that learners are distinctly and likely to be motivated in learning with the film-based concordancer system. The two groups of students have shown different reactions towards the improvement of the system, and the impression of the conversation has a distinctive divergence in result.