Abstract:

Listening comprehension is still a road that needs to be traveled completely by students and teachers due to the lack of tools and ways to help motivate education and learning based on this method, the lack of cultural education about native speakers of English, the little or no use of technological resources that motivate the study of a second language and other factors that affect the acquisition of a new language in our environment.

Watching subtitled films is a tool to approach listening comprehension in English as a foreign language by favoring the process in an entertaining and meaningful way for students. This article aims to propose a set of actions including the participation of students and teachers to determine the controversial situation and to elaborate a proposal through consensus on the viewing of subtitled films to high school students. The information for the study was obtained from a sample of 80 first-year high school students and 20 English teachers. It is a qualitative, participatory research study. Interviews and surveys were applied to teachers and observation of the film viewing to the students, as part of the diagnosis carried out. The information showed that in the viewing of films without subtitles (65% of the students were close and/or did not reach the required learning) while with subtitled films (98% of the students reached and mastered the required learning). Regarding this experience, it was found that watching films with subtitles is a tool that improves students' listening comprehension.

This study is important because subtitles have multiple benefits for the student's listening comprehension of the English language; with a broad mission, which is the learning of a foreign language, instilling in their motivation for English, developing skills for the use of technologies and obtaining a discipline to create a collaborative work environment where the interactive learning of teachers and students strengthen the teacher-student relationship.

Keywords:

Subtitled movie watching, listening comprehension, participatory.