The Effect of Watching English Movies with Subtitles on ESP Students’ Content and Vocabulary Comprehension. A Study Conducted at an Indonesia Polytechnic Engineering

This research is focusing on the impact of English movies with subtitles on content comprehension of English movies and vocabulary comprehension. With fifty-six (56) students of Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya was selected randomly of English subject. Activate the quasi-experimental study, a movie with tittle Transcendence was selected based on the ESP content and language level difficulty.  With two intact groups, they were group A and group B. They watched the same movie, class A watched it with English subtitles and class B without subtitles. After watching the movie, the participants answered the relevant multiple-choice vocabulary, content comprehension questions, and questioners. The data gathered were subjected to the statistical procedure of paired sample t-test. The results showed that subtitles have a positive impact on content comprehension of English movies. It can be concluded that the participants comprehend the subtitled movie better than the one without it. Moreover, in this statistical study, it is found that the subtitles did not have an effect on participants’ vocabulary comprehension. The pedagogy of this study is to allow the lecturer use some film to enrich the teaching materials for reading class in ESP.This research is focusing on the impact of English movies with subtitles on content comprehension of English movies and vocabulary comprehension. With fifty-six (56) students of Politeknik Elektronika Negeri Surabaya was selected randomly of English subject. Activate the quasi-experimental study, a movie with tittle Transcendence was selected based on the ESP content and language level difficulty.  With two intact groups, they were group A and group B. They watched the same movie, class A watched it with English subtitles and class B without subtitles. After watching the movie, the participants answered the relevant multiple-choice vocabulary, content comprehension questions, and questioners. The data gathered were subjected to the statistical procedure of paired sample t-test. The results showed that subtitles have a positive impact on content comprehension of English movies. It can be concluded that the participants comprehend the subtitled movie better than the one without it. Moreover, in this statistical study, it is found that the subtitles did not have an effect on participants’ vocabulary comprehension. The pedagogy of this study is to allow the lecturer use some film to enrich the teaching materials for reading class in ESP.