The Use of Movie Adaptations to Enhance EFL Learners’ Comprehension of Literature
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2020
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UNIVERSITY OF ABBES LAGHROUR-KHENCHELA
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This dissertation investigates the effectiveness of movie adaptations in enhancing EFL learners’ comprehension of literature. Written in a foreign language, backboned with a different culture, and adorned with complex metaphors and images, literature has been usually a challenge for teaching and learning. This research, consequently, suggests movie adaptations as a means to refresh the study of literature. It, first, gives a background about the whole issue and then examines things in the terrain. Indeed, the first and second chapters are concerned with theories about the utility of literature in EFL classes and approaches to teach it, focusing, of course, on the integration of multimedia technologies namely movie adaptations. The third chapter puts everything into practice and engages in an experiment which chooses Dickens’ novella A Christmas Carol and teaches it for the target population, once with its adapted movie, and another time in a conventional way. To consolidate the data already gathered from the test conducted in the experiment, a questionnaire is addressed for the controlling group. The results of the experiment and the test, in the end, confirm the hypothesis and argue that movie adaptations do not only enhance learners’ comprehension of literature, but also raise their motivation and appreciation of the subject matter.