During the unit I have learned several aspects regarding to films. However
the most important practice I learned for my future as a teacher, is how to
teach through films.
At school I watched many films for subjects like language, and mainly
history. Nevertheless, I was never required to make a specific analysis of the
film, nor did I recognize the main objective of watching a film in classes.
Having reflected upon the dossier and the unit in general, I could
realize it is not easy to teach through films since not all films can help the
teacher to achieve his/her teaching objective, as well as one film can be
useful to achieve a number of objectives. Indeed, there exist more than one
strategy to teach through films according to the objective: Film as a visual
textbook, Film as a depicter of atmosphere, Film as an analogy, Film as a
historiography, and Film as a springboard.
Finally (concerning to teaching through films), I could realize during
the unit most of the strategies mentioned above were used in classes, not only
by the teacher but also by the students as well. For example, in one class the
teacher gave an "analogy" question to students about a specific film,
and after discussing and answering the question, my classmates and me started
to discuss about the film in "springboard" or "atmosphere" terms despite we were
not asked for the teacher to do it. This unit facilitated my learning in terms
of vocabulary since in the discussions we had to speak using the specific vocabulary
related to the topic.
In conclusion, we can take quite much advantage from films to do many
things such as teach, learn, analyse, depict, and so on. It depends on what the
teacher wants students to learn, and/or depends on us, what do we want to learn.
Link of the oral entry: I had some problems with the internet to upload it to youtube. On monday I will do it!
Speaking:
ReplyDeleteFluency 9/10
Pronunciation 7/10
Nature of the task 10 /10
Scope of the reflection 10 /10
Score: 36 Mark:6.0
Good job!, totally clear about your learning process during the unit. Not only focused on the topic but also on language.
Pay attention to the following:
cultural /ˈkʌl.tʃər.əl/
Regarding to
Writing
Use of Grammar 8/10
Cohesion 8 /10
Nature of the task 7/10
Scope of the reflection 8/10
Score: 31 Mark:4.8
Final Mark:5,5
Your account still misses to be more focused on teaching awareness and pedagogical practices. There’s a clear connection between how the topic and what you learnt from it can help you as a teacher. But you need to refer to as how the language class is modeling the way to teach language.
Pay attention to:
several aspects regarding to films.