This study explored the effects of project-based learning utilizing movies and English-English dubbing in a real time online class. The English (Intra-lingual dubbing, English-English) class was designed to develop language ability communicative interactions over 15-week semester during pandemic. Forty-three students from multiple disciplines participated by doing variety activities through cla...

We present a quantitative analysis of evaluative language in a genre in which it is particularly prominent, that of movie reviews. The data chosen are nonprofessional consumer-generated reviews written in English, German and Spanish. The reviews are analyzed in terms of the categories of Attitude and Graduation within the Appraisal framework (Martin & White, 2005). The results show a clear infl...

This research discussed the correlation between English department students' habit in watching movies and their vocabulary knowledge. The background of conducting this is to see how possibility habits influenced Furthermore, find out if there a significant knowledge, determines descriptive correlational method as design. After collecting analyzing data, it obtained that categorized "high" categ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the depiction of injury prevention practices in children's movies released during 1998-2002 is different from an earlier study, which found that characters were infrequently depicted practicing recommended safety behaviors. METHODS The top 25 G (general audience) and PG (parental guidance suggested) rated movies per year from 1998-2002 comprised the study sample...

Code-switching (CS) between an Indian language and (Indian) English is, and has long been, a normal feature of everyday speech in urban Indian society. Although much has been written about the status and role of English, and about the sociological variables associated with English usage in India, there have been, to date, no studies explicitly investigating changes in CS patterns over time. Bol...

The purpose of this paper is aimed at giving a description how English swear words, particularly in American movies, are used. writers collect the common words movies as data. There nine categories words. They (1) sexuality, (2) eject and material from body, (3) family matters, (4) part (5) blasphemy, (6) animal, (7) xenophobia, (8) low or bad personality, (9) status profession. Among those cat...

background: scenes depicting smoking are among the causes of smoking initiation in youth. the present study was the first in iran to collect some primary information regarding the presence of smoking scenes in movies and propagation of tobacco use. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted by polling audience about smoking scenes in persian movies on theaters in 2011. data were collecte...