Category Archives: Using Video Clips for Language Learning and Teaching
Video clips provide audio and visual input for language learners, unlike podcasts, which provide only audio. The visual input provides context and background to help the learner make meaning from the accompanying spoken language. Information can come from a speaker’s facial expression and body language in media like panel discussions or TED talks. Documentaries, investigative reports, educational videos provide rich clues to meaning of the words being spoken.
Emphasize working with dynamic speech and transcripts instead of studying texts in order to accelerate language learning.
Basically, to get right to the point – people who learn English by watching movies and TV series or Youtube and studying the closed captions are on to something. Learners who study on their own, but also get out in … Continue reading →
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