The English language is a living language with a vital formative energy fueled by ever more people living and thinking in it. To be knowlegeable in today’s digital era where more than 80% stored information is in English, it is necessary to master today’s English language as we now find it.

The best language tutor in today’s digital era may as well be a collection of movies, suitable for language acquisition and appropriate for language learners. Proper movies can be great tutor and tool in ESL learning and teaching.

Proper movie choice for ESL learning and teaching is not necessarily intuitive, and personal preference may not be an adequate justification for the time and effort in studying a movie for ESL acquisition. It thus may require a systematic approach and an ESL specific standard to movie selection.

For its linguistic and cultural significance, Woody Allen’s cinema is an invaluable resource for ESL learning and teaching. In the contemporary American culture, Woody Allen’s influence is both unique and unparalleled. The abundance of the dialogue makes Woody Allen’s cinema a marvelous textbook for contemporary American speech.