Video: Task Design
Updated: Apr 21, 2021
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also has a unique place in the language classroom in that it has the power to situate language within its natural context and show students a far greater range of factors which interrelate with communication and impact on it beyond the actual words that we say.
Of course there are the negative sides of digital video in language classroom. It is this complex, contradictory and potentially dangerous nature of online video that makes it so important that we educate our students to use it in ways that are educationally enhancing, responsible and empowering.
Video Design
Here are information and tips to help you choose appropriate clips and design tasks around them.
CHOOSING A CLIP
One of the first things you need to know to start using video with your students is how to choose the right clip or clips to base your activities around.
Approaches to selecting a clip
You can select a clip that you think your students would be interested in, then analyze it and decide on the best way to exploit it with them.
You can decide what aim you would like to achieve and then try to find a clip that will help your students to realize that aim.
Criteria for selecting a clip
Choose interesting content
Keep it short
The visual
Quality
Contemporary vs historical
Humor
Cultural references
Slang
Accents
TASK DESIGN
If you really want students to engage with and learn from viewing video you need to give them tasks which guide, develop and support their understanding of the content.
Grading tasks
Task setting
Pre-viewing tasks
First viewing tasks
Silent viewing
Identifying genre
Ordering events
Tick lists
Second viewing tasks
Comprehension questions
Student generated questions
Graphs and visuals
Summarizing
Focus on form
Gap fill
Differentiation
Correction
Designing online video tasks
Support
Control
Evaluation
Distraction
Post viewing follow up tasks
Personalization
Reflection
Extension
Re-contextualization
Reading and writing tasks for video
Some advantages of online tasks
Pace and control
Support tools
Note taking
Review
Student autonomy
CULTURE IN VIDEO
One of the major challenges of mastering any language is to understand its relationship to the cultural group that uses the language. Video is a very useful tool for making students aware of the target language culture.
The three Cs of culture
Portrayals of culture
Culture as shared experience
References to culture
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