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Eight Ways to Use Video With English-Language Learners

Eight Ways to Use Video With English-Language Learners
This blog was co-authored by Katie Hull Sypnieski. This post is excerpted from their new book, The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels. "I like the way you use videos with us -- you get us moving, talking, writing and speaking. The problem is you make us think too much." -- "John," one of our English-Language Learner students We can think of far worse things a student might say to us, and John's comment demonstrates our perspective on using video with English-Language Learners (and, for that matter, with all students) -- research and our experience show that it can be a very effective learning tool, but it has to be used as an active one. The word "active" comes from the Latin "actus," which means "a doing, a driving." Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally. 1. Describe what you see: Who is doing what? 2.

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edutopia Videos can be an effective tool for teaching and learning English (or, for that matter, any academic subject) if used strategically and not as a "babysitting" device. My colleague Katie Hull Sypnieski and I wrote a previous post for Edutopia titled Eight Ways To Use Videos With English-Language Learners that shares instructional strategies for many kinds of clips. Here are a few of my favorite videos to use with those exercises. Video Playlist: Resources for English-Language Learners SHERLOCK: S2E2 THE HOUNDS OF BASKERVILLE TRAILER Sherlock and John find themselves in the wilds of Dartmoor when a traumatised young man named Henry Knight presents them with an irresistibly baffling case - his buried memories reveal the violent death of his father at the jaws of a terrifying and gigantic Hound, and having returned to the site of the killing, he has found fresh footprints.nnSherlock and John must navigate the depths of the mysterious Baskerville Research Facility, locals with secrets to hide, and even test their own friendship to discover if there truly is a monster lurking in the shadows of Dewer's Hollow...nnnAn original trailer edited by Lee Dawson SHERLOCK video footage and soundtrack is property of Hartswood Films for the BBC [2010].nn==============================================n==============================================nnVisit us at: us on Twitter: us on Facebook: us on Tumblr: us on:ninfo@sherlockology.comnn==============================================n==============================================

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