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This study describes the characteristics of the vocabulary types used in the movie The Holiday. EFL teachers who are interested in using movies in the classroom have demanded from movie-oriented researchers a concrete syllabus, including techniques and teaching materials that can be used in class. However, movies are not made for foreign language teaching, but for entertainment. That is why a movie-based syllabus cannot be as systematic as other English-teaching materials. As a preliminary, this study analyzed and offered the features of vocabulary appearing in one specific movie. For this, an online word counter and the Lexile measure were used to determine the word size and difficulty level of the vocabulary in the movie script. The result was that the vocabulary size and difficulty level were not found to be a main cause of reading failure because they are generally easy to accommodate. In addition, to estimate students’ actual responses to the vocabulary, three non-English major college students were chosen and asked to translate the script into Korean to determine which aspects of the vocabulary cause reading difficulty and suggest ways for teachers to help students. The result showed that the three participants had similar difficulties during translation due to specialized/technical vocabulary and multi-word units. |
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