Tuesday 24 July 2012

Reading 2: Comments


Response to reading for Day 3: 

I really like how the article is trying to steer teachers away from showing complete films in the classroom. I think that there is value in showing video in the classroom. Students in L2 classrooms need to be exposed to native speakers of the target language however it is true that they will loose interest quickly if they do not have something to hold them accountable to listening.

I think it would be great to use video in such a way as to create some kind of interactive activity with the students. Showing a video clip that can be stopped deconstructed with the students and asks them to respond to certain questions or situations might be a way to make video clips more functional in the classroom. I really think that if we are trying to create conversational fluency in our students we need to focus on real life situations, and having all of the visual cues that they might have in a real life conversation with a native speaker.

Creating a script with the students’ conversation with the audio clip might be a way to assess understanding. Maybe using the voicethread.com program might lend itself to creating a forum for this kind of response from students.

Video clips might also be a great way to show students aspects that are culturally relevant scenes that might peak an interest in the students’ passion for the language. Showing video clips of this kind might require a different kind of assessment of comprehension, rather than needing to understand every word the students would need to understand context and general ideas. 

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