The Effect of Using English Instructional Movies on Improving 7th Graders Speaking Ability of Salehin School

The aim of this study was investigating the effect of teaching English through authentic movies on the improvement of seventh graders speaking ability as speakers of English as a foreignlanguage. A pretest, post-test control and experimental design was employed in this observational study. Two seventh grade classes were regarded for this study. A language proficiency interview was conducted in both classes and based on it, 25 homogeneous studentswere selected from among 51. The students were then divided into two groups: control group, including 13 students, and the experimental group including 12. An independent sample t-test was used for comparing the results of the two groups. Post-test results based on t-test showedthat the experimental group outperformed the control group significantly

Keywords:

authentic , instructional movies , speaking ability , conversation questions