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Using Video to
Enhance or Flip
ESL Speaking,
Listening, and
Pronunciation
Marsha Chan
The Pronunciation Doctor
Mission College and Sunburst Media

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Value of using video clips for
listening, speaking, pronunciation
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To enhance learning during class
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With audiovisual input
Can be created specifically for English learners
Can be carefully selected material for a general audience
Can be theme-based with material for discussion
Can present functional language
Can focus on prosody and other pronunciation elements
Should provide a model for learners to copy/emulate
To preview material in a course book
To augment material in a course book
To expand on material in a course book
To enhance learning outside of class…

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What is flip teaching?
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A form of blended learning
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Encompasses the use of technology to leverage learning
in the classroom
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Most commonly done using teacher-created videos that
students view outside of class time
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Moves “lecture” home and “homework” into class hours
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Allows students more time to review and absorb “lecture”
content.
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Allows more hands-on time with the instructor guiding the
students during class

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What are benefits of flip teaching?
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Enables students more time to review and absorb
lecture/presentation content.
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Allows more hands-on time with the instructor guiding the
students during class
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Creates more collaborative learning opportunities among
students
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More 1-on-1 interaction builds stronger student-teacher
relationships
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Offers a way to share lecture material easily with
colleagues, substitute teachers, students’ family, community

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Today’s examples
 Homemade
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Written with particular language objectives
Recorded on Apple Macintosh
Edited in Quicktime, iMovie, Final Cut Express
Uploaded to www.youtube.com/pronunciationdoctor
 Mission
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videos
College students access the Internet
On campus
At home

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How to Make S’mores
from Pronunciation Doctor’s Youtube Channel
www.youtube.com/pronunciationdoctor
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Instructional, describes a process, tangible, short
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viewing assignments (homework)
Intermediate-low/mid
Intermediate-high – Advanced-low
 Post-viewing
discussion
 Presentation
planning and implementation

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How to Make S’mores
http://youtu.be/oliIf38clE8

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Video viewing assignment
 Introduction
 Ingredients
 Other
things you’ll need
 Directions
 Optional
follow-up: Plan a presentation

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Introduction
word don’t is acontractionof do and not. S’more
is a contractionof what two words?
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 When
people in the United States go camping, what
do they like to do at nighttime?
what cookbook did the first s’more recipe first
appear?
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Prepare these things
Ingredients
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To make s’mores for about 1020 campers, what will you
need?
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a bag of large
, about a pound
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a box of
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a dozen
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a pound
Other things you need
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A __________ or
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A clean ____________
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A ______________

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Directions

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Directions, continued

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In-class discussion
 Discuss
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Pairs, groups, whole class
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the written assignment
did you learn from the video?
Language
Culture
Speech organization
Speech delivery
Verbal, nonverbal behaviors
Auditory, visual messages
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ideas do you have about your own demo?

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Optional follow-up activity
Students’ cooking demonstration
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Prepare a 3-minute demonstration of how to make a
simple dish. Use How to Make S’moresas a model.
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Write your plan on paper.
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Prepare the ingredients and utensils.
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Rehearse your speech in front of a mirror.
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Record yourself and make revisions.
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Present your cooking demo to the class.
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In person during class on ________
With a partner as videographer, make a video before class;
bring the video to class on a USB flash drive or CD.

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Elena demos How to Make Blini
http://youtu.be/0ue3B8zkaJI

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Tiffany’s Daffodils
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Example from Pronunciation Doctor’s Youtube Channel
www.youtube.com/pronunciationdoctor
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Narrative, a story in the past time, concrete, focused on past
tense phonology
Video viewing assignments (homework)
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Intermediate-low/mid
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Intermediate-high – Advanced-low
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Classroom discussion
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Post-viewing discussion
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Presentation planning and implementation

Tiffany’s Daffodils http://youtu.be/a9Jw3X3Bd-E

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Video viewing assignment:
phonological analysis
Chapter 5 Cleaning up the
Backyard
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Sound Focus 1 Words stress
and intonation
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Sound Focus 2 The /t/ sounds
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Sound Focus 3 The /d/ sounds
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Sound Focus 4 The regular
past tenses –ed endings /t/,
/d/, /id/
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Sound Focus 5 Vowel length

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Sound Focus 1 Word Stress and
Intonation

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Sound Focus 2 The /t/ sounds

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Sound Focus 3 The /d/ sounds

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endings /t/, /d/, /id/

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Sound Focus 5 Vowel Length

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In-class discussion
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Discuss the written assignment
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What did you learn from the video?
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Pairs, groups, whole class
Pronunciation
Vocabulary
Story telling
Speech delivery
Illustrations
Auditory, visual messages
What ideas do you have about developing your own
story?

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Oral presentation: a story about an
event in the past time
 Compose
your own story about something that
happened in the past.
 Bring
a first draft of your story to class on
_________________.
 Prepare
the story for oral presentation on
_________________.

Kim Chi traveled to Canada
http://youtu.be/J-ltTI6s170

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Many other video sources,
among them…
 TED
talks Riveting talks by remarkable people, free
to the world (Advanced learners)
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www.ted.com
 VOA Voice
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of America
www.voa.gov
learningenglish.voanews.com
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Levels 1 and 2
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Vocabulary, Comprehension, Listening
Audio, pictures, captioned videos, quizzes and other
downloadable learning materials

Marsha Chan
CATESOL 2013 presentations
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Using Video to Flip ESL
Speaking, Listening, and
Pronunciation Fri 8:30-9:30
Contact information
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Games Employing
Movement, Memory, Meaning, Minglin
g, Monitoring, & Communication Fri
11:00-12:00
What Language Teachers Must Know
to Teach Pronunciation Fri 3:30-5:00
Teaching of Pronunciation Interest
Group Networking & Business
Meeting Fri 5:00-5:45
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Read, Write, Listen, Speak: Projects
for Integrating Language Skills Sat
2:30-3:30
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www.youtube.com/PronunciationDo
ctor
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www.linkedin.com/in/PronunciationD
octor
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www.slideshare.net/purplecast
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www.marshaprofdev.blogspot.com
www.sunburstmedia.com/present/pr
esent.html
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www.missioncollege.edu/depts/esl/f
aculty/chan/chan.html
Learning and Teaching the Music of
Spoken English Sat 10:15-11:15
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marsha@sunburstmedia.com
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