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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