Designing Curriculums Using Movies to Strengthen English Listening Comprehension Skills

Designing curriculums using movies takes a large amount of planning, coordination, timing and technical preparation on the part of the lesson designer. If instructional materials using movies are well-designed, they can provide the best training for real life listening since English spoken in movies just like real life English speaking. Curriculums using movies for English teaching have been developed, but mostly these curriculums do not focus on developing listening comprehension skills or applying various kinds of tasks and activities. The curriculums should be designed applying the distinctive features of movies to the lessons and employing pedagogical techniques of teaching listening: 1) Focusing on task-based lessons for the students to be active during listening 2) Utilizing nonverbal cues to arrive at the meaning of utterances 3) Emphasizing the need to understand reduced forms and idiomatic expressions 4) Utilizing the schema theory for listening comprehension hence the pre-viewing, viewing, and post-viewing activities 5) Employing techniques of 'viewing without sound', 'sound without viewing', and 'viewing with sound' to develop sensitivity to non-verbal and linguistic cues. 6) getting general information 7) getting specific information by selective listening 8) making inferences from conversation in English.