Abstract
The purpose of this case study is to investigate how interrelatedness between emotion and language influences the learning of English through movies. To do this, three advanced college students majoring in English were asked to watch a romantic movie, The Choice (2016), and then to participate in a conversation analysis, a subsequent discussion of those results with a researcher, and finally an interview. The conversation analysis showed that all the participants chose emotional expressions based on the movie storyline; however, they failed to see the relevant language patterns in the emotional expressions. The following discussion indicated that participants tended to focus on the relevant language forms or patterns of the emotional expressions. In the interview, all the participants agreed with this new emotion-based language method and mentioned that they learned pragmatic meanings from the language forms they already knew. One of the participants commented that they found it hard to find the relevant language forms in the emotional expressions without the teacher''s help. However, the participants agree that interrelatedness between emotion and language would positively support their language learning.
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