INTRODUCTION
"Technology in language teaching is not new. Indeed,
technology has been around in language for decades – one might
argue for centuries, if we classify the blackboard as a form of
technology. Tape recorders, language laboratories and video have
been in use since the 1960s and 1970s, and are still used in
classrooms around the world." (Dudeney G. and Hokly N, 2007:
7)
Despite the fact new technologies have emerged for enriching
the teaching learning process of the languages, teachers still
use videos in class due to their contribution to the lessons in
general.
This essay will deal with the use of a video in language
lesson. First of all, the essay will develop a specific idea
about a video content from the web.
After that, it will explain how the teacher might use the
video chosen in a presentation lesson providing some examples of
activities.
The next level of the analysis will make reference to the
objectives of this idea and what benefits it can provide to
students.
This essay will make some comments about the contribution of
the video selected to the lesson and it will also explain why and
how this video added a different issue to the lesson, impossible
to achieve without it.
Finally the essay will assume the author"s opinion concerning
the use of videos in general for the development of the teaching
learning process of the languages.
So, the aim of this essay is to describe and analyse the use
of the video content as a support of a language lesson.
Palabras clave: Video content, improvement, a language
lesson.
DEVELOPMENT
The use of videos in the class has provided a favourable
impact to the development of the languages. They can be used in
all the stages, but teachers mainly use them in the Presentation
stage due to their importance for increasing students" motivation
towards the topic. In this essay the teacher has chosen a video
content from the web title "Climate Change- Tomorrow"s Climate-
Today"s Challenge" that deal with the destruction of the
environment in general terms, so the teacher will use this video
in a Presentation lesson in which the topic will be related to
the damage of the environment. The objectives of the lesson are
fist, the students should get familiar with the vocabulary and
expressions about the climate change through the use of a video
content and second, students should acquire and understand the
content of the video trying to reproduce it orally and in a
written form.
The teacher will start the lesson making some comments about
if it is hot or warm today. He/she will also ask the students
about their opinions concerning the climate changes that provoke
negative effects in the world. Then students will provide
different answers and the teacher will write down on the board
some words mentioned by students and some others which are
related to this topic but are unknown for them. In the video they
will watch and listen to some of the words the teacher has
written on the board, such as warmth, trapped, witnessed, tackle,
among others. So, the teacher is giving in advance the meaning of
these words, with the purpose students do not get lost and can
understand the video efficiently. So, after that, in the Before
Listening Activities (Pre questions) the teacher will write on
the board the title of video and ask students to give some ideas
concerning the video they are going to watch, taking into account
its title. This idea develops students" imagination and forces
them to speak predicting what is going to happen in the video
without listening to it.
Another activity students will achieve is to watch the video
without sound and the teacher will ask them some questions such
as, what do you think is happening in the video?, where is it
taking place?, which could be the cause of this disaster from
your point of view? Then students will provide their answers
immediately. After this, the teacher plays the video again but
this time students will have the possibility to listen to it. So,
they will realize if their answers coincide or not with the
arguments exposed in the video.
Then in the While Listening Activities, students will achieve
a variety of exercises according to the video such as to Tick if
some statements are True or False or to Write True or False
according to what they are listening to. Another activity is to
Circle from a group of words given by the teacher the ones they
are able to listen to from the video.
However, in the after listening activities as it is a more
complex stage, the students will develop difficult activities
which can be achieved individually or in pair work depending on
the purpose of the activity. Students must pay attention very
carefully to the video now due to it will be the last time they
will listen to it. Some examples of these activities could be to
complete sentences according to what they have listened to, which
is an individual exercise that allow students to increase writing
skills and when the group has finished students will go to the
board and complete them, so the teacher will check the answers
and correct the mistakes in case there is any. Consequently,
students will discuss with their partner the opinion concerning
the phrase "Tomorrow"s climate is today"s challenge." The teacher
gives them around 10 minutes in order they can analyse it and
later, they will provide their ideas orally. In addition to this,
students should write a list of suggestions about what changes
should be done in general in order to avoid the environment"s
deterioration. It is a pair work activity. Finally, students
should create a new title of the video taking into account the
content of it.
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