학습자들의 말하기능력신장을 위한 영화 클립과 창작 드라마 활용

The use of the movie clips and creative drama to help EFL students enhance their speaking competence

The aim of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of the use of movie clips in helping EFL students enhance their speaking competence through creative drama. Movie videos and DVDs have been an important part of the EFL learning environment. Movies have been a valuable and dynamic language learning tool which offers contextual and visual clues to students and develops learner motivation. Students are asked to watch a selected movie clip with the sound track off and they act out the scene. Based on the given movie clip, they are asked to create and develop a series of related scenes by using their own imagination. They are also asked to act out the scenes and the script which they create. A survey questionnaire was developed and administered to analyze students' responses toward the use of video clips in Screen English classes. The findings of the study are discussed and can be helpful for English teachers in designing their own effective speaking activities by using the movie clips. Pedagogical implications based on the findings are also suggested.