Role and status - every pupil interchanges various roles during the day and the particular role
undoubtedly influences the way they speak.
Mood, attitude and feeling – feelings have influence on language in almost all situations.
Shared knowledge – practically all conversations that pupils lead comprise to certain extent
shared knowledge, something what both participants know and thus there is no need to say to each other.
All given components help to pupils interact each other freely in the classroom to improve their
communication skills. In addition, using movie activities in teaching English is that movie brings fun to
lessons, which increases pupils’ motivation and makes learning more memorable. Harmer writes that “one
of the teacher’s main aims should be to help pupils to sustain their motivation” [4]. Pupils learn English
easily and with interests.
As a result, movie activities allow the student to show his or her own feelings, personality and creativity,
to be used in the language class depending on the communicative situation.
In conclusion, it is apparent that movie activities foster pupils’ socialization, critical thinking,
problem solving and improve oral communication skills, by exploring different language styles and
registers, furthermore, shy pupils can “hide behind” another character still while using their personalities,
so they are actively involved with these kind of activities, because this “personalization makes language
more meaningful and memorable than drilling or mechanical repetition can. Pupils are encouraged to
speak and have the chance to communicate, even with limited language, by using non-verbal
communication.
The list of used literature:
1. Maley, Alan, and Alan Duff. Movie techniques: A Resource Book of Communication Activities for
Language Teachers. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Print. p10.
2. Neelands, Jonothan, and Tony Goode. Structuring Movie Work. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2000. Print.
3. Ulas, A. H. Effects of Creative, Educational movie Activities on Developing Oral Skills in Primary
School Children. American Journal of Applied Sciences, 2008. 5 (7), 876-880.].
4. Harmer, Jeremy. How to teach English. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited.
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