AbstractThis 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.....