Video - Watching & Listening

 

 

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This session aims to:

  • Highlight the importance of videos & audio in the learning process.
  • Share ideas on where to reach for video and audio learning materials. 
  • Advice on the most efficient online websites to reach for information. 
  • Explore audio and video methods to use during TBLT classes

Language courses can include not only graphics and illustrations but also narration, music, screencast tutorials, and videos.

It is useful to add videos or audio in your language class for several reasons, it can be the main source for a listening task, but it can also be part of the pre-task to bring your students in the mood. Think of an excerpt of a film, or a song.  Additionally, embedding audios into a language task can serve pronunciation & expressive purposes.

The good news is that you don't have to be a computer expert to use these tools. 

Videos have become an important part of online and offline education. Websites such as YouTube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Dailymotion offer videos on a myriad of topics, which can satisfy even the most demanding viewers/students. 

The only thing required is the patience to find a video that suits your learning method, but especially your study group. The TBLT method can certainly benefit from a large scale of audio and video. 

Audio is also an integral part of online and offline education. Listening to audio while completing other tasks is very common and there are many useful websites, e.g. Spotify, Podcasts, AudioBook. 

Just create your own playing list and let it play in the background. Clearly, listening is a skill that students can benefit from. By becoming better listeners, productivity will be improved. 

Always remember that giving your students slides, books and unfashionable teaching material can have negative results and lead to abandonment of the learning process. 

Making your course interactive with audio and video creates a more engaging sensory experience. In addition, the use of audio and video can be the right motivation for students to get involved during the pre-task.