Film in Action

Film in Action convincingly places the moving image at the centre of the 21^st century language learning agenda. This ground-breaking book shows how teachers can benefit enormously from the emergence of video distribution sites and the proliferation of mobile devices.

Key Features:

• • Insights into how learners can engage with film.

• • Over 100 activities for teachers to bring film into the language class.

• • Steps for teachers and learners to create their own moving images.

 

Film in Action contains three distinctive parts, which focus in turn on theory, practice and development:

• • Part A introduces the many different aspects of film: how it can inspire, while exposing learners to a wide range of authentic language, improving comprehension, intercultural understanding and visual literacy.

• • Part B contains over 100 activities – from an exploratory look at film itself – across two chapters which move from responding actively to film to actively producing film. The activities are clearly and simply set out, mixing highly original ideas with reassuringly “classical” procedures.

• • Part C goes beyond the classroom into the wider school environment and into a world dominated by visual information, by looking at innovative ways to integrate moving images through longer, more complex projects.