| As progressive professionals in our continual search | | | | 4. The length of viewing is controllable |
| for additional resources, approaches, techniques and | | | | How long are your English language class sessions? |
| methods for expanding our repertoire of English | | | | Fifty minutes? One hour? Ninety minutes? Two hours |
| language teaching tools, often, we need not look far | | | | or more? No matter what length classes you have, |
| beyond our immediate surroundings for inspiration. A | | | | movies can be adapted to suit the timeframe you |
| commonly available resource of authentic English is | | | | have available. How? Simply use clips from films or |
| movies. Are movies practical for English language | | | | "installments" instead of the whole film in one shot. This |
| teaching? How do you go about it? What are good | | | | actually seems to work much better for many |
| movies for English teaching? Where can you get | | | | teachers and class groups. |
| them? Why bother using movies at all? These | | | | 5. Use of sub-titles and close-captioning is controllable |
| questions, and others, will be briefly explored in this | | | | Another useful aid in movie-watching is the ability to |
| series of articles. Here then, are five good reasons | | | | turn on or turn off features like sub-titles in English or |
| why you should use popular movies with your learners | | | | the learners L1, or the use of close-captioning in |
| for English language practice and acquisition. | | | | movies, documentaries or videos produced with this |
| 1. Movies in English are widely enjoyed | | | | feature. Using sub-titles in English not only provides |
| A wide variety of learner types enjoy watching | | | | listening comprehension support, but aids in vocabulary |
| movies. It is one resource from which you can extract | | | | development and reading comprehension as well. As |
| considerable mileage on a wide range of themes and | | | | the English language learners' skills develop, these aids |
| topics. | | | | can be turned off. |
| 2. Movies in English are easily available | | | | As progressive professionals in our continual search |
| Unless you live in Tibet or Borneo perhaps, movies in | | | | for additional resources, approaches, techniques and |
| English are usually available from a variety of sources. | | | | methods for expanding our repertoire of English |
| Rental shops, book stores, theaters, media outlets, | | | | language teaching tools, movies can offer us an easily |
| record shops and music stores all have numerous titles | | | | accessible, dynamic resource to enrich and expand |
| avail at any given time. Offerings change or are | | | | our English language teaching. These reasons contain |
| upgrades as new films are released. | | | | only a few of the many benefits we and our learners |
| 3. Different movie formats are available | | | | can experience. In the companion to this article entitled, |
| Whether your available viewing equipment is VHS or | | | | "5 Ways to Use Popular Movies for English Language |
| BETA format, NTSC or PAL, 35mm, 16mm or even | | | | Teaching", we'll look at ways movies, clips and videos |
| 8mm video, you can still find an expansive variety of | | | | in English can be exploited in the EFL class room. |
| flicks from which to choose. | | | | |