Students' And Teachers' Attitudes Towards Using Authentic Bimodal Subtitled Audio Visuals For Improving Efl Student's Pronunciation

Résumé: The main concern of the present study is the use of authentic bimodal subtitled audio-visuals in order to improve students' pronunciation in the department of english, university of Oum-El-Bouaghi. Additionally, it tackles the issue of teaching pronunciation and its status among learners and teachers of Phonetics and oral expression and their attitudes towards the use of authentic bimodal subtitled audio-visuals to enhance students' pronunciation. In this context, the strategies of teaching pronunciation vary from one approach to another. In the present study we have focused mainly on the common problems of pronunciation and the use of authentic bimodal subtitled audio-visuals in both oral expression and phonetics courses. It is hypothesized in the study that students' common problems of pronunciation are due to the lack of effective strategies to deal with pronunciation aspects during the phonetics and oral expression classes. The study was conducted with second year students who answered a survey questionnaire about their actual pronunciation level and their attitudes towards using bimodal subtitled audio-visuals in classes. Also, a semi-structured interview is conducted with teachers of phonetics and oral expression at the department of english in order to see how do they deal with pronunciation and the main problems facing them in teaching pronunciation. The study provides a theoretical description of the situation of english pronunciation in EFL classroom, and the use of Subtitled Audio-Visual Materials in Language Teaching in general and in improving learners' pronunciation in particular. The practical part of the study provides an analysis of data collected from the questionnaire and the semi-structured interview administered to both second year students and teachers of phonetics and oral expression. According to the interpreted results, the study confirms the hypothesis of the study that both teachers and learners have positive attitudes towards the use of bimodal authentic audio-visuals in improving learners' pronunciation level. Many ideas and solutions concerning the use of bimodal subtitling during the phonetics and oral expression classes are suggested.

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