Does film playing have good effect as an educational means in English teaching?

I am from India and i never used to go on any spoken English classes to learn English. I developed mt spoken skills by training myself, On my lot I learned so much thing about English, and i use to watch engligh movies to understand the way to speak English. It helps me better to speak English in foreign style. "NEHA"

Watching movies is absolutely a good method to learn English, especially to those who doesn't live in an English speaking country. Through watching movies, learners could feel the natural English, knowing how English is used in daily life. So don't doubt the effect of this method. But you'd better not forget the fact that passing examinations is the main goal in the current educational system of China. To those old teachers including your superior, doing exercises is the most effective way to achieve that goal. From this point, they are also right.

The best way to learn English is to live in an English speaking environment and pick up the way people express themselves. If this is not possible, the next best thing to do is to watch films that transport us to that virtual environment and listen to how the way native speakers speak. I used this method when I studied the Thai language many years ago and it helped me a lot. Not only we learn new vocabularies, but above all, we learn the intonation and the correct context the words are used. Visual arts is a great help in teaching and learning since many of the things we see and hear are retained in our memories.

it makes people feel like speaking good English and provoke them to do the same too. to feel like an important personality they do have to talk English smoothly and that can be done through hard work and watching movies but be sure that you are learning how to speak and not enjoying the movie more.

hi spring, i am a student from kerala. i often watch english movies with subtitles. on the first days i understand nothing. but gradually i began to know some thing. first days i feel very difficult to watch and read simultaneously, but gradually it feel easy. i think it is good of you if you show movies to your students. our teachers are doesnt like that. they often says to watch english news, but they have never told of watching movies. i think it is a good medium for developing our communication skill. regards Anu

You are right of course .As I know, Many students of china study english are just for examination.They can read ,get high score ,but cann't speak out .This is to say ,it's poor in their use .Watching interesting movies could imporve the listening .The students could learn to communicate with each other .This is the purpose.