How Watching Movies from Netflix Help Students’ in Improving Language Skills

Abstract

Netflix is a streaming application that is very popular with the younger generation. Netflix provides users access to local and international movies and films with a very diverse selection. The objective of this study is to find out how Netflix affects the improvement of students’ English language skills. This is a qualitative descriptive study, and the data collected were analyzed using thematic analysis by incorporating an interpretive description approach. The semi-structured interviews were utilized with open-ended questions and some followed-up questions to simplify and to make it easy for the respondents to answer the questions. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed. The respondents of this study were 15 students of Universitas Advent Indonesia and were selected from different faculties, and purposive sampling was used in selecting the respondents of this study with 11 female respondents and four male respondents. The results of this study indicated that the use of the Netflix application to watch foreign films has been able to improve students’ English language skills.

Keywords: Netflix, Movies, Streaming, Language skills, Interpretive