Effective Use of Videos to

Promote Cultural Awareness in

ESL Teaching

By: Abdeslam BadreRabat-ALC

Email: abdeslambadre@yahoo.com

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Overview

I. Introduction: Share What you Think

II. Why Bother Ourselves with Video Use

III. What Strategies & what Procedures

IV. Conclusion: Forget &Remember

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I. What do you think?It is better to: Beginni

ngPre-Int.

Inter.

Advanced

teach cultural aspects, starting from

use videos to teach cultural aspects, starting

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What Do You Do?Question 3 Print

ed Text

Visuals

Audio

Audio-Visuals

All of These

Do you teach cultural aspects, using

Question 4

How often do you use videos to teach culture?

Always

Some-times

Seldom Never

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Count your Ideas!Do you think that it is better

to: Beginning

Pre-Int.

Inter.

Advance

Teach EFL culture starting from 20 15 10 5

Use videos to teach about the EFL Culture starting

20 15 10 5

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Measure what you do!Question 3 Print

ed Text

Visuals

Audio

Audio-Visuals

All of These

Do you think that EFL culture could be best taught through

5 10 10 15 20

Question 4

How often do you use videos to teach culture?

Always

Some-times

Seldom Never

20 15 10 5

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“Every generalization is wrong including this one”

90–66: Favorable beliefs and practice

65-46: Favorable beliefs but not always reflected in practice

45-26: Quite favorable beliefs, but not always reflected in practice

25-20: less favorable beliefs reflected in practice

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Say what you See?

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How About Now?

04/11/23Abdeslam Badre Homecome. Def.

Homecoming?

It is the tradition of welcoming back former residents and alumni of an institution. It most commonly refers to a tradition in many universities, colleges, and high schools in North America. It includes activities for students and alumni, such as sports and culture events and parade through the street of the city or town (V-1)

04/11/23Abdeslam Badre Advantage

II. Why Bother?• Bring the real world to the classroom• Give an aesthetic look at the culture &

facilitate Acculturation• Display the culture behind the language• Highlight paralinguistic features• Facilitate comprehension & increase TL

input & Retention• Conducive to integrated skills development • Effectively stimulate further debate in and

outside class• Pleasant, motivating, & friendly

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Pedagogical Sequencing

Pre-viewing

While-viewing

Post-viewing

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III. Pre-viewing Techniques

Voc. Generating (V-2)

Key-Voc. Explaining (V.3)

Pronunciation

Predict the story from the title (V-4)

Predict events: Free write possible questions about the events

Freeze Framing: Predict or describe: predict what is being said/happened or about to/ interpret facial expressions, describe the scene, colors (V-5)

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While-Viewing techniques

Video sound off: description of events (V-5)

Picture-off: Context-description (V-3)

Factual questions: (V-6)True-False WH-Qs

M.C.Q

Inferential questions (7)

Information-gap watching: Back to back

Note-taking: of major events/central information/main section of the plots

Write down Un-answered questions, events or aspects about culture

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Post-viewing Techniques

Open debate (8)

“Imagine if” activity

Compare & Contrast local and target cultural aspects

change the ending

Voice-acting

Intensive Language practice

Follow-up research

Writing: Summaries, reports, reviews04/11/23Abdeslam Badre Remember

Don not Forget to remember that…!!!

Videos could only be used with advanced level students

Or Cultural aspects could be better introduced to more advanced Ss.

Video use is time consuming

Videos could ever substitute your role as a facilitator

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Remember to Remember!!!To evaluate and select the appropriate video materials

regarding length, content and language goals, and students’ level

Choice of the video: not too long this leads to loss of focus/ not too short this may luck context or and ample information for the learners

Find out if it fits the outlined goals and objectives of the lesson

Preview it first, and watch it a few times before using it

Prepare difficult and unusual vocabulary and grammar.

Break The Video Up Into Shorter Sections

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Downloadable Videos Link

Real-english.com

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Questions???

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