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Peer reviewedDumont, Lillian – Foreign Language Annals, 1976
A discussion of one teacher's successful efforts to obtain foreign feature films for use as language teaching aids. (KM)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Community Cooperation, Community Involvement, Films
Direct linkStewart, Melissa A.; Pertusa, Inmaculada – Foreign Language Annals, 2004
In an effort to facilitate students' understanding of films in the target language, many instructors turn to films with English subtitles. Viewing films subtitled in English does not encourage learners to use their previously acquired listening skills, but rather allows them to rely on reading English instead of making the extra effort required to…
Descriptors: Listening Skills, Foreign Language Films, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Techniques
Peer reviewedIrving, John S. – Foreign Language Annals, 1976
Describes an experiment with an innovative foreign language teaching method whose focus is on increasing the students' fluency and interest by deemphasizing the role of the teacher as drill-master and stressing student communication on a one-to-one basis. (Author/CLK)
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Conversational Language Courses, Foreign Language Films, German
Peer reviewedArey, Marie-Jo – Foreign Language Annals, 1993
This paper presents and comments on an experiment on teaching grammar that was started at Gettysburg College (PA). Using a proficiency-based approach, this course uses films as texts that provide a cultural, visual, and linguistic context in which the class functions. (six references) (JL)
Descriptors: Dialog Journals, Dictation, Foreign Language Films, French
