A five-question questionnaire along with an open-ended question is designed here to examine the viewpoints of students at the Chinese Culture University regarding the in- class viewing of the film Dead Poets' Soceity in the videotape format. The student responses to the five doze-type questions indicate that: 1.) 84.17 percent of the students agreed that this film could have been helpful to their efforts to learn English; 2.) 68.09 percent admitted to watching English-speaking movies by listening to the dialogues without completely relying on the Chinese subtitles; 3.) 76.19 percent thought they had begun to adopt new viewing habits that focus on listening after watching video activities in class; 4.) 60 percent believed that the combination of teacher-centered activities and film viewing could promote their English learning, while 30.95 percent emphasized the importance of the latter activity, and merely 9.05 percent gave strong support to the former as a good way toward English proficiency; 5.) As high as 90 percent of the students thought that Dead Poets' Society was a suitable film for an English language class to view. Student responses to the open-ended question: "What can you learn from this film?" are classified under four main categories: Language, Motivation, Culture and Miscellaneous. The findings of the open-ended question have much in common with the seven-point advantages of film viewing in the
English classroom as espoused by most EFL theorists.
