The Openness to Cultural Understanding by Using Western Films: Development of English Language Learning

This paper determined students ' interests on: 1) film selections, 2) group discussion and exams, and 3) continuous learning using western films. The results indicate that 1) they were likely to be more confident and expressive when stories have easy sequence of events that may help them organize opinions well for effective communication; 2) characterization spoke about their present situation, and that gave them enough knowledge about future's life; 3) they were likely to be more interested to join discussions and other types of classroom activities because film selections or topics have abundant cultural inputs to make them more logical in reasoning and decision-making; 4) they were likely to be more active due to the native or foreign speaker’s teaching techniques, accent, and diction that can better their learning and performance skills; 5) "thinking like a native speaker " technique could help them express their thoughts and feelings spontaneously and freely without cultural boundaries; 6) they were more motivated to learn English because grouping or pairing helped them compare and contrast the amount of their learning with other students ' as basis for improvement; 7) when a teacher seeme