Abstract:

Chinese economy is developing with leaps and bounds. More and more people are eager to learn English well since it is the most popular language in the world. However, many people don’t know how to learn it or find it too difficult to learn English well. Those thoughts hinder the pace of learning English of those people. This paper introduces a creative and easy way to learn English—watching movies. It attempts to demonstrate how to improve listening and speaking through watching movies from the aspects of the criteria of the selected movies, the problems and the corresponding solutions students can use during the show time and activities which can be conducted after watching movies. This paper tries to seek for a lighthearted approach to inspiring students to enjoy the process of learning English and to develop a good habit of autonomous learning.

Key words: movie; English learning; listening; speaking

摘 要：

中国的经济正在飞速发展，由于英语是世界上最多国家通用的语言，越来越多的人想要学好英语。然而，很多人都不知道如何去学又或者觉得它太难了学不好，这些想法阻碍了他们学习英语的步伐。本文介绍了一个既创新又轻松的方法来学习英语——看电影。分别从电影题材的选择标准，在看电影的过程中会遇到的一些问题和应对的方法，以及看完电影后可开展的活动来阐述如何看电影提高英语听说能力，本文旨在通过寻找一个轻松愉快的方法促进学生们享受学习英语的过程并且养成的自主学习的习惯。

关键词: 电影；英语学习；听力；口语
   
1 Introduction
The rapid development of Chinese economy has great effect on the push of popularity of English learning. And the needs of English to cooperate and communicate with people all around the world encourage people to learn English. Therefore, a great number of people spend much time studying English. However, they find it is a challenge. The aims of the present study are to find a pleasant way— watching movies, for students to learn English zealously and efficiently, in addition,  to cultivate good habits of autonomous learning. As a matter of fact, scholars have explored this innovative way ever since the last century. As is put by Long Qianhong, film is a very effective medium for language teaching, especially in teaching listening and speaking (2003:91). The advantages of learning English through movies have long been demonstrated by many scholars (e.g.Hu Honghui, 2011; Pangyan, 2011; Wangyan, 2009; Xinghao, 2010), and they regard it as a liberated form of learning English from the fetters of the tradition. It can encourage students to acquire the knowledge actively but not to receive those skills passively. On the basis of the previous studies, this paper lays the emphasis on the ways of improving English through movies. The study mainly involves the relevant guiding theory, the problems students may run into, the ways to solve the corresponding difficulties and the ways of improving listening and speaking while and after watching movies.