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Video and Media Clips to Enhance Instruction

PennTESOL -East Spring Conference April 25, 2009 Community College of Philadelphia Debbie Ousey Penn State Brandywine dlo4@psu.edu (Click on orange text to link to websites.). Video and Media Clips to Enhance Instruction. The Students. “developmental immigrant students ” (DIS)

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Video and Media Clips to Enhance Instruction

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  1. PennTESOL-East Spring Conference April 25, 2009 Community College of Philadelphia Debbie Ousey Penn State Brandywine dlo4@psu.edu (Click on orange text to link to websites.) Video and Media Clips to Enhance Instruction

  2. The Students “developmental immigrant students” (DIS) American Studies Course Cluster First semester: • Basic Writing (3 credits), • Writing tutorial (1), • American Studies (3), • Reading and Study Skills (3), • Grammar (3) • a Math course

  3. The Students • Second Semester • Freshman composition (3) • Writing tutorial (1) • Other regular college courses • STILL NEED ADDITIONAL READING/WRITING SUPPORT

  4. The Course • ComLit 153 – existing course # for PSU • “Comparative International Literature and Film” • Goals: • Extensive/intensive reading and writing • Thematic approach • Many opportunities for discussion and analysis • Broad variety of authors and films

  5. Benefits of Supplementing with Movies and Video Clips • Aural and visual • High interest • Culturally relevant • Students are usually more comfortable discussing/analyzing video and can then transfer these discussion/analysis skills to reading

  6. The Text • Spack, Ruth. (2007). Guidelines: A Cross-Cultural Reading/Writing Text. 3rd ed. NY: Cambridge. Ch. 2: Writing from experience Ch. 3: Relating reading to experience Ch. 4: Analyzing an argumentative essay Ch. 5: Analyzing fiction

  7. Major Themes in Guidelines • Ch. 2: Writing from experience • names • living in (or between) 2 cultures • Ch. 3: Relating reading to experience • reading • education • communication

  8. Major Themes (con't) • Ch. 4: Analyzing an argumentative essay • education • Ch. 5: Analyzing fiction • living in or between 2 cultures • the immigrant experience • making choices

  9. How I found movies • Visited Blockbuster's “foreign films” section • Wrote down names of movies that intrigued me • Googled reviews of these movies • Watched the ones that looked most promising and could fit in with the themes. (I then put these movies on reserve in the campus library. Some students rented the films on their own.)

  10. How I found online clips and trailers • www.youtube.com • www.hulu.com • News sites likewww.cnn.com • Google

  11. Supplementing the themes of names and living in 2 worlds • Readings: • Jamaica Kincaid's “Girl” • Excerpt from Frank Chin's Donald Duk • Speaker: • Cathy Bao Bean • “duck vs. rabbit”

  12. Supplementing the themes of names and living in 2 worlds (con't) • Movie (watched outside of class): • Mira Nair (2007), The Namesake • Movie Clip: • From The Joy Luck Club

  13. Supplementing the themes of reading and education • Movie (watched outside of class) • Dai Sijie. (2002). Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. • (used documentary clips on Chinese Cultural Revolution) • Music Video • Pink Floyd, “Another Brick in the Wall” • Movie Clip • Classroom scenes from Ferris Bueller's Day Off

  14. Supplementing the analyzing an argumentative essay chapter • Interactive map: • U. S. Immigration Patterns • Television program: • Morgan Spurlock's 30 Days series: • “Muslims in America”episode • Note: Morgan talks FAST

  15. Supplementing the theme of choices and the analyzing fiction chapter • Movie (watched outside of class): • Hood, Gavin. (2006). Tsotsi. • Banned advertisement from South Africa: • “Soweto, A Reversal of Roles” • Speaker: • A South African friend of mine

  16. Other Clips I've Used • Disney's first black princess • News report from CNN • Russell Peters (comedian): “Beating Your Kids” (YouTube) • Bad language (!), but illustrates comparison/contrast • Randy Pausch's “Last Lecture” (YouTube) • Fantastic; great for teaching notetaking • will.i.am music video: “It's a New Day”

  17. Online Ways to Promote Reading • Facebook's“WeRead” application • www.shelfari.com

  18. Observations at the End of the Semester • Students share their own cultures more readily. • Korean soap operas are now very popular among my students (and only 1 is Korean)! • Students MAKE CONNECTIONS between readings and between videos, current media images, and readings. • Students back up their points about a reading MORE SPECIFICALLY.

  19. Observations (con't) • Students discuss UNIVERSAL MESSAGES in readings and film. • Students have greater background knowledge of American and world culture.

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