ELTWeekly Vol. 5 Issue#41 | December 9, 2013 | ISSN 0975-3036
Alex Barbonza has published an article titled ‘5 Cracking Ways To Use Video While Teaching ESL’.
Alex says, “Video really is the ultimate form of content for engaging a human.
So, with that in mind, we really should be using it for our class rooms while teaching ESL, and here are 5 ripping ways to use videos in an ESL/EFL classroom:
1. Use it for learning new vocabulary.
Science is showing that context is everything when it comes to memorizing anything, and especially vocabulary, which is traditionally a dry part of learning.
If I’m given an engaging, comprehensible, real life scene, and I’m being given new vocabulary at the same time, I’m more likely to learn it, as the associations will be stronger.
If you tell me that the word “bus” is a bus, that’s cool, but if you show me people getting on and off a bright red double decker bus in London, and if an interesting event happens while on that bus, then your student is more likely to remember the word”.
Dear Author,
I read your article on using videos in the classroom, I think your predictions are not very far and it is the high time for us, the teachers, to start practicing some of your techniques. Thank you.