Reflection on essential reading for week 9

This article talks about how to develop an IVD (interactive videodisc) courseware for enhancing TEFL project, including design considerations, objective setting, instructional design, implementation, evaluation and how it should be linked to language classroom, etc.

In my opinion, the principles discussed in the article can bring some considerations and implications to HK secondary teachers. For S4-5 students, they have to do a school based assessment (SBA) which requires them to give an individual response or a group discussion after reading an English book/ watching a movie. Many teachers find using movies is an effective way to arouse students' interests in learning English since students can see and hear how people use the language in a real context. It is more fun by just reading the texts in the textbooks! It has richer language input, such as verbal speech and non verbal visual items such as gestures, posture, facial expressions, eye contact, proximity.

However, it seems to me that teachers may not know how to integrate the videoclips into the language classroom and how to engage students in their learning, not just for fun! This article may help teachers to some extent. Do teachers have ideas on using movies in language classroom?