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Learning English through Watching Movies

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non-formal and informal education. Movies can help learning in all formal classrooms including
primary, secondary and higher levels as well as any other environment. Alongside, inattentive
students and slow learners are more likely to get interested in learning, as movies change the
formal classroom settings into an informal friendly environment. On the other hand, learning
English through watching movies doesn’t always require teacher or instructor. However, use of
ICT in teaching has emerged as the prior demand in recent time and movies can be integrated in
the classroom through it.

Acknowledgement
Key Findings of this paper were presented in BELTA National Conference. Feedback from the
conference has been incorporated accordingly in the article. We would like to convey our thanks to
fifteen MPhil Researchers of IER, University of Dhaka for their contribution as respondents and the
organizers of BELTA National Conference.

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