REPÚBLICA BOLIVARIANA DE VENEZUELAUNIVERSIDAD EXPERIMENTAL PEDAGÓGICA LIBERTADOR

INSTITUTO PEDAGÓGICO DE CARACASCoordinación de Investigación y Postgrado

INTEGRATING VIDEOS INTO THE ENGLISH CLASSROOMAS A MEANS TO DEVELOP

STUDENTS’ LISTENING AND SPEAKING SKILLS

AUTHOR: LISBETH BELISARIO

Main objective

To develop students’ listening and speaking skillsBy incorporating videos in the English classroom

Specific objectives

To provide students with videos that enhance oral productionTo provide videos in which students get exposedto natural and authentic languageTo consolidate a range of maritime terms by producing a video

LOCAL CONTEXT

AUDIENCEMaritime engineering students

Theoretical framework

Authenticity

Meaningful learning

Blended learning

Authentic materials (Sherman, 2003)

Audio + visual aids = videos real purposes used by real people to communicate real audience

Meaningful learning (London, 2001)

Rote learning vs. Meaningful learning

Blended learning Our reality: Technology is everywhere

Why using technology in language teaching and learning?_ It can be motivating_ The inteactivity of language can be highly beneficial (Sharma and Barret, 2008)

Why integrating videos into EFL classroom?_ It has been proven to be an effective method in TEFL (Rammal, 2006)_ It facilitates learning by selecting appropriate input material_ It provides contexts (which can be exploited to enhance oral production)_ It promotes interaction (Keene, 2006)

Considering a wiki as the web tool to be used to reach the objectives of this project

Students will be able:

_ to find extra material to practice outside the classrooms

_ to watch tutorials to produce their own videos

_ to read the activities scheduled before classes

_ to get video samples

Thank you very much

References

Keene, M (2006). Viewing Video and DVD in the EFL classroomhttp://www.lib.u-bunkyo.ac.jp/kiyo/2006/kyukiyo/KENKYU217-234.pdf

London, M (2001). The Oxford Handbook of Longlife Learning. http://books.google.co.ve/books?id

Rammal, S (2006). Videos in EFL classrooms. http://www.lib.u-bunkyo.ac.jp/kiyo/2006/kyukiyo/KENKYU217-234.pdf

Sharma, P and Barrett, B (2008). Blended Learning. Using technology in and Beyond the Language Classroom. MacMillan.

Sherman, J (2003). Using Aunthentic Video Material in the Language Classroomhttp://books.google.co.ve/books?id

Lisbeth Belisario

e-portfolio: http://mywillingness.wordpress.com/

E-mail: lisbequi@gmail.com

Skype ID: Lisbeth.belisario1

Twitter ID: @LisBelisario

SL avatar’s name: Tesibel