Movies and english idioms

Abstract

This research was carried out with the purpose of studying the relationship between movies and idioms in English. The researcher used a survey as an instrument to investigate the relationship between the dependent and independent variables. In addition, this research is distinguished by being experimental and bibliographic, since it contains statistical data where information was collected to examine the data on movies and idioms in English. This research was carried out at the Technical University of Ambato where the sample population was 151 students of the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh semester of the Pedagogy of National and Foreign Languages training program which 105 female and 46 male. The characteristics of the films that are taken into account in this investigation were basic, linguistic, socio-cultural and captioned; the idioms were based on different categories which are form, specific topics and keywords, the survey was carried out by the researcher and validated by three teachers from the training program of the Pedagogy of National and Foreign Languages , the survey was validated with Alpha Cronbach with 10% of the population that was 18 students, it has 21 questions according to the theme of movies and idioms in English, then the survey was applied to the entire population in the English program. The result obtained was that all the questions asked in the survey accept the alternative hypothesis, this shown thanks to the chi-square. Finally, it can be said that the movies do have a relationship with the idioms in English.