What are positive and negative concequences of Teaching Oral English using Subtitled Movies?

[tj doxa]

Many teachers suggest their students to watch movies in order to raise their knowledge of listening. Meanwhile many students watch the subtitled movies. What do you think about the concequences?

[Leyla Ann]

Positive:
it evolves spelling and hearing, plus when someone learns from a source they enjoy, they will eventually learn faster.

Negative:
the learner only gets to learn hearing and spelling but not speaking, assuming that the activity of learning doesn't equal the amount of time spent on applying what's been learned.

[Tchrjokes456]

It makes connections between the native language and the second language. Watching subtitled movies allows students the opportunity to compare language mechanics like sentence structure while also providing a model for pronunciation. The downside is that students will sometimes only read their native language without connecting to the second language.

[Georgephilips]

I don't find any consequenc in between, because they are subtitled and they are dubbed movies. Subtitled movies just mean they'd see the translation of whatever language that's used in the movie in their own native language. This also ensures that they could still learn more about the semantics and pronunciations and also give them a broader view of the language since they'd also understand it in their own native language

[A Y reviews]

I don't think it's an ideal way to learn grammar in the first place.

[_claudi_]

Learning English language is beyond subtitles. The translations may not be correct, the grammar might be wrong. It is not a good option.

[fridamadrid]

I find it to be one of the most useful techniques to improve hearing. It can also help with speaking by learning some new phrases and words, even if it doesn't fully give the student a chance to talk to someone else.