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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Short Film in Language Teaching
The British Film Institute (BFI) and Into Film
Learners discussed the principles behind working with short film in language teaching and an understanding of what the language of film, especially short film, offers in support of language teaching. Learners also designed effective teaching strategies for working with film in language teaching.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Mark Reid
Head of UK Learning Programmes
The British Film Institute (BFI)
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Discuss the principles behind working with short film in language teaching
- Ability to design effective teaching strategies for working with film in language teaching
- Develop an understanding of what the language of film, especially short film, offers in support of language teaching
- Explore the use of creative film technologies to support effective language teaching
Syllabus
- Some key pedagogies and approaches to teaching languages using short film.
- Working with creative technologies in language learning.
- Assessing language learning using the different dimensions of film including sound, image and time.
- Film language and language learning.
- Film sound and languages, and how sound can be exploited for language learning.
- Teaching with film music and genre.
- Film dialogue and language learning.
- The film image and language learning - how the varying dimensions of the film image can be used in language teaching and learning.
- Exploring body language, facial expression and the image in film, for use in the languages classroom.
- Film time and languages - flashbacks, backstory and the past tense. Present tense, narrating and ellipsis. Flash Forward, prediction and future tense.
Issued on 28th June 2021
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