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Location: 57 Olson Hall
Language instructors are often in a quandary on how to use film in the classroom. Film is often used as the reward on the day after a test, or as the respite on the last day of the term. In this workshop we will explore various approaches to the exploitation of clips for teaching language and culture. Drawing on two clips in the LFLFC, one focusing on filmic devices and the other on language, but where both facets of the filmic text are important, we will demonstrate how the clips might be used to teach grammar, vocabulary, stylistics, and culture, affording the development of students’ linguistic, communicative, and translingual and transcultural competencies and visual literacy. Furthermore, we will present examples of tasks that foster the development of students’ symbolic competence with the goal of becoming a “multilingual subject” (Kramsch 2009).