The Impact of Humorous Movie Clips on Better Learning of English Language Vocabulary

This study examined the effects of humorous movie clips on better learning of English language vocabulary. Humoris an important human behavior that plays a vital role in communication and social interactions. This subject has beenrarely investigated in Iranian English classes. The researchers used quantitative method. Because all of variables werenot controllable, therefore quasi-experimental method was employed to conduct the study. To this end, a proficiencytest was administered to 60 Iranian EFL learners. Then 48 intermediate language learners who were homogeneousbased on their rank scores were chosen and randomly divided into two equal groups (i.e. 24 as experimental and 24as control groups). To assess their vocabulary knowledge at the beginning of the study, both groups participated in aresearcher-made, 30-items and multiple choice vocabulary test adapted from PET test and scored out of 30.Experimental group watched the humorous movie clips but the participants in control group taught in a conventionalway. After 10 sessions of treatment, both groups were tested on the similar items covered in the pre-test. The effectof humorous movie clips on the groups’ vocabulary achievement was evaluated through Paired Samples t-test analysis.Results have shown that the experimental group outperformed the control group since humorous movie clips had apositive effect on developing vocabulary learning among intermediate EFL learners (p<05) in the experimentalgroup. EFL teachers can use humorous movie clips to raise the learners’ motivation.

Keywords:

Humor , humorous movie clip , vocabulary learning