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A suggestion for improving movie English education: With reference to language development using the game, World of Warcraft

This paper considers how to improve movie materials when used for language development. Since 2014, STEM scholars have been making efforts to develop movie materials from a theoretical perspective. Their suggestions are based on a second language development model that Lee, Y. J. (2014) has researched through using the game World of Warcraft for over one and a half years. However, World of Warcraft is closer to a natural environment while movie materials could be considered more of a nurtured environment. In order to overcome such a difference, this paper suggests a way to use some ideas from World of Warcraft in movie materials. One idea is to focus on the movie content in order to learn as much lexis and as many expressions as possible. The other idea is to participate in activites designed to improve long-term memeory of learned lexis and expressions. In this research five college students were subjects and three American TV shows were used: Desperate housewives (Season 3, Episode 9), The Middle (Season 1, Episode 1), and Friends (Season 5, Epsiode 16). Every subject reported a response to each session. Their reports were used to evaluate these research suggestions. The results showed students were generally satisfied with the process.