Using Video in the English Language Clasroom
Video is a popular and a motivating potential medium in schools. Using video in the language classroom helps the language teachers in many different ways. Video, for instance, brings the outside world into the language classroom, providing the class with many different topics and reasons to talk abo...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2002-08-01
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| Series: | Profile: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development |
| Online Access: | http://www.revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/profile/article/view/11313 |
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| Summary: | Video is a popular and a motivating potential medium in schools. Using video in the language classroom helps the language teachers in many different ways. Video, for instance, brings the outside world into the language classroom, providing the class with many different topics and reasons to talk about. It can provide comprehensible input to the learners through contextualised models of language use. It also offers good opportunities to introduce native English speech into the language classroom. Through this article I will try to show what the benefits of using video are and, at the end, I present an instrument to select and classify video materials. |
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| ISSN: | 1657-0790 |