This study examined the effects of watching subtitled English movies on vocabulary learning. Fifty-four students from a Community College who participated in the study were    randomly   assigned   to   experimental   and   control   groups   with   28   and   26  participants respectively. Both groups were presented with the same English movies but  the   control  group  watched  the  movies  without  subtitles,  while  the  experimental group watched  the movies with subtitles for three consecutive weeks. The participants completed  the  Vocabulary   Knowledge  Scale  (VKS)  pre-test,  post-test  and  delayed test, as well as questionnaire. Results  from t-tests (pretest: t (52) = -1.233, p = 0.223, post-test: t (52) = 1.717, p = 0.094) revealed  that both groups progressed significantly from pre-test to post-test. The findings revealed that  with or without the appearance of subtitles,  the  participants  in  both  group.....

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