Presentation based in majority on the information gathered from an article by José Luis Ramirez Romero

3. Structure
 Objectives
 Introduction
 Uses of videos in EFL/ESL
 Types of Activities
• Examples of Home Made Videos
• Dimensions and Issues to consider while designing
ESL/EFL videos
• Sites to download materials and tools
• Conclusion

4. Objectives
 To demonstrate how ESL/EFL teachers can use videos in
their courses.
 To share practical ideas for creating them.
 To provide participants with sites where they can
download materials and tools to make their own videos.

5. Introduction
 Videos have traditionally been used in many schools
as a reward or to entertain students.
 However, they can also be used as a very powerful
educational aid to enhance language instruction,
without taking the fun out of them, as some authors
argue, such as Williams & Lutes (2007); Maggs
(2005); Köksal (2004); and Stempleski (2000).

6. Uses of Videos in ESL/EFL
 As a teaching tool
 To motivate students
 As a learning Aid

7. Types of activities
 Preliminary activities
 During the projection
 Closing Activities

8. Examples of Home Made Videos
Example #1
Example #2

9. Dimensions and Issues to
Consider While Designing
ESL/EFL Videos
These can be:
 Pedagogical
 Technical
Production

Equipment related


10. Pedagogical Dimension
 Related to the learning theory
& Second Language/ Foreign
Language Acquisition

11. Technical
Dimension
• Production issues
• Equipment issues

12. Production issues
What NOT to do:
Eight Lessons to design a Video

13. Equipment issues
 While shooting be sure that:
 The camera has memory, tape, battery, etc.
 The camera is actually recording.
 The camera works

14. Equipment issues
 While editing the video, be sure that:
The editing program’s format matches the video

program.
You know hoe to use the editing program.

You keep all the videos you need in a file.

The edited video and all its components are in the same

file.

15. FREE Tools for Video
Edition
Windows
Movie Maker
Collections area
1)
Storyboard
2)
Preview area
3)
Collections bar
4)

16. Jahshaka
http://jahshaka.org/

17. The Internet
A secondary source full of
video material
Sites to download free material for English language
teaching (with didactic guides)
 http://www.esl-lab.com/roots/rootsrd1.htm
 http://www.download-esl.com/videos.html
 http://www.english-4kids.com/videos.html
 http://www.englishmedialab.com/beginnervideos.html

18. Full videos or samples of videos and
scenes
 http://www.dotsub.com/
 http://www.archive.org/details/opensource_movies
 http://youtube.com/
 http://0-a.mymovies.net/trailers/
 http://tv.isg.si/site/?q=node/873
 http://www.alltrailers.net/
 http://movieclock.com/
 http://www.movie-list.com/

19. Translations of movies or TV shows:
 http://www.script-o-rama.com/
movie-transcripts-a.html
 http://members.tripod.
com/~LauraAMC/

20. Conclusion
Although some
people are against
technologies, this
element is becoming
more important in
students’ lives
nowadays.

21. Conclusion
It is believed that rejection to these new
elements has happened because some
teachers think of technologies only as a kind
of entertainment. What they don’t realize is
that we can use the interest students have
towards it in our favor, control it and adapt
it to language teaching.

22. Conclusion
Besides, using technologies does
not have to be that complicated:
Recent advances have made its use
easier for users. All you need is the
will to innovate and satisfy
student’s needs.

24. Doubts
University of Sonora