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This study aims at investigating the effects of using popular animated movies on enhancing EFL Students' vocabulary. The researcher adopted quantitative and qualitative methods to collect data. A questionnaire, pre/posttests, teacher's observation and students' self-reports were tailored to target the study aims. The study participants were both teachers and students from South Hebron. The questionnaire results indicated positive attitudes towards the use of animated movies among teachers. Thus, a pre and posttests were administered to examine students' awareness of a group of selected vocabulary items. The analysis of the posttest indicated that the experimental group outperformed the control one. As for the qualitative research, students in the experimental group were more motivated and participated more. In short, the study reveals that using animated movies is effective to teach students vocabulary, and increase their motivation. (Author’s abstract)