Subtitles for Reading Comprehension; Foreign Film for

Listening ComprehensionRobert Dean Hobbs, Ed.D.

Email: dr.rdhobbs@gmail.com

Agenda

1. Film selection, teacher previewing & editing!

2. Handouts, pre-viewing activities for students

3. Viewing activities, elicitations & PAUSING

4. Post-film extension activities

Classroom Arrangement

OverHeadProjector

BoardTV

CirculatingTeacher with

RemoteControl

ComputerArea

Theatre or Group

seating

Students

Progression of Activities

Students can ….preparereports, ……charts, …..graphs, group presentations, pair work writing & presenting, or solo

Give students a choices of activities to choose from,…and give …..students the…options of multipleactivities

Handouts:PlotThemesVocabularySetting: Time & time span, Place, Furnishings, Architecture,Landscape,CostumesEvents

Preview Viewing Post Activities

Action Research: Film in English

StudentsList NewWords

Students CountNew Words

StudentsDiscuss Methodology

TeacherPresentsConsensus

TeacherWrites allPotentialNew WordsOn the Board forStudents

TeacherExplains That infoFrom StudentsIs SOImportant!

TeacherElicits FeedbackFromStudentsConcerningPausingFrequency

Table for Film Analysis

Coding? Who? What? Where? When? Why?Scene 1 StudScene 2Scene 3Scene 4Scene 5Scene 6

Film Cycle

Post-ActivityPlanning

Viewing

ViewingAssignmentsChosen

FormativeAssessment Pre-Viewing

Activities

StudentOutcomes

Student Presentations

Aspect or Extension Addressed

Writer’sperspective

Actors’Strategies

Director’sperspective

AudienceInterpretations

Suggested Foreign FilmsFRENCH• Les Quatre Cent Coups• (400 Blows)• Chocolat• Au Revoir Les Enfants• Le Roi de Coeur • (King of Hearts)• Killer Kid• It All Starts Today• Sugar Cane Alley• To Be and To Have• Butterfly• Bon Voyage

IRANIAN• Color of Paradise

DANISH• Babette’s Feast

CROSS CULTURAL• Baraka• Chronos

South African• The Gods Must Be Crazy

Various ContinentsCZECH

• All My Loved Ones• Shop on Main Street• White Dove

CHINA• From Mao to Mozart• Soong Sisters• Shower• To Live• Yi Yi

AFRICAN• Herdsman of the Sun• Guimba

GERMAN• Europa Europa• Goodbye Lenin (edit 1)

• Rosenstrasse

SPANISH• Butterfly• Girl of Your Dreams• (La Nina de Tus Ojos)

More FilmsJapanese

• Shall We Dance• Boys’ Choir

DUTCH• Soldier of Orange

AFRICAN• Herdsman of the Sun• Guimba

Afghanistan• Kandahar

KOREAN• The Way Home

BRAZILIAN• Central Station

Films in EnglishAmerican• Bourne Identity• Legends of the Fall• Snow Falling on Cedars

• Picture Bride (Hawaii)

• To Kill a Mockingbird

DOCUMENTARYThe CorporationControl RoomThe ExilesGeorge CrumbHawaii’s Last QueenMaya Lin (architecture)My Voyage to ItalyDistorted Morality

(Chomsky)Spellbound (spelling

bee)Supersize MeUnderground RailroadWar PhotographerWonderful Life of Leni

Refinstahl

Journalize!Keep Records• How do students respond to each film?

• Which pre-viewing activities worked best?

• Can students identify more languages than before?

• Did students learn new vocabulary?

• Did reading improve?

Monitor Emotions• When students become emotional because of a film, they are ready to write and express themselves.

• The most dramatic reaction from students I have ever seen was from the Iranian film: The Colors of Paradise.

• Fin / End