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This article reports on a method of promoting the output skills of speaking and writing of EFL students. Output skills are now considered more important than previously and Korean students are required to have these skills, so it is necessary to find a meaningful way to develop them. An output-first activity is a method to try the output process before the input process, rather than the usual vice-versa approach. This approach can help students develop awareness about the meaning and form of expressions and promotes the need for them to express themselves, something which is often difficult to achieve in EFL situations. Output-first activities are very effective for developing output skills and using native-language subtitles of movies could be an efficient technique to reinforce output-first effects. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of movie subtitles for activating English output-first activities. This article presents a case study of ten college students; based on the results of memorization effects, this research explores the effectiveness of Korean subtitles, suggesting that output-first activities using Korean subtitles could accelerate the memorization of English expressions. |
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