The present study aims to investigate the role of English movie subtitles in vocabulary learning by EFL learners at Soran University. Using English movies with subtitles help EFL learners acquire more vocabularies and idioms. The participants were thirty one English department students, they were randomly selected. The participants were males and females and all of them had been learning English since primary school in Iraqi Kurdistan Region schools. And, the study is an attempt to motivate

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... ents to subtitles in improving their vocabulary while learning English as a foreign language. The results show that watching English movies with subtitles facilitates vocabulary learning and motivate students in acquiring new vocabularies, phrases, idioms and slangs. The present study aims to investigate the role of English movie subtitles in vocabulary learning by EFL learners at Soran University. Using English movies with subtitles help EFL learners acquire more vocabularies and idioms. The participants were thirty one English department students, they were randomly selected. The participants were males and females and all of them had been learning English since primary school in Iraqi Kurdistan Region schools. And, the study is an attempt to motivate students to subtitles in improving their vocabulary while learning English as a foreign language. The results show that watching English movies with subtitles facilitates vocabulary learning and motivate students in acquiring new vocabularies, phrases, idioms and slangs. The present study aims to investigate the role of English movie subtitles in vocabulary learning by EFL learners at Soran University. Using English movies with subtitles help EFL learners acquire more vocabularies and idioms. The participants were thirty one English department students, they were randomly selected. The participants were males and females and all of them had been learning English since primary school in Iraqi Kurdistan Region schools. And, the study is an attempt to motivate students to subtitles in improving their vocabulary while learning English as a foreign language. The results show that watching English movies with subtitles facilitates vocabulary learning and motivate students in acquiring new vocabularies, phrases, idioms and slangs.