Efl Teachers' And Learners' Perceptions About The Effects Of English Tv Series On Efl Learners' Conversational Competence

Résumé: Abstract In recent years, watching English TV series becomes a wide spread phenomenon around the world. This kind of entertaining products took a place in most people’s life especially EFL students. In this paper we report on research that explores and investigates the EFL teachers’ and students’ perception about the influence of the English TV series on the conversational competence of EFL learners. It aims also to find new strategies to shape the use of these TV series as teaching tool in EFL classrooms. For that concern, questionnaires were conducted for both EFL teachers and learners. For teachers, the questionnaire was conducted to investigate their perceptions about how far technology can penetrate EFL classrooms and learners mindset. As far as students, the questionnaire aims at exploring how students perceive the idea of how much likely movies and TV series can affect their conversational competence. The results revealed that teachers have a good perception about the conversational competence. In contrast, they have also a misperception about how to use TV series and movies as an authentic material inside classrooms. Meanwhile, students genuinely lack knowledge about conversational competence and they ignore the TV series influence on their conversational competence. This paper provides new insights on how to use English TV series as appropriate length authentic teaching tool inside M’sila University EFL classrooms.

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