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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Autores:
Amado, Vicente
Tipo de recurso:
Article of journal
Fecha de publicación:
2002
Institución:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Repositorio:
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Idioma:
spa
OAI Identifier:
oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/25387
Acceso en línea:
https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/25387
http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/16424/
Palabra clave:
TEFL
ESP
Rights
openAccess
License
Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional
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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.