Teaching Film

Course content

This seminar will focus on both the why and how of teaching film in the EFL classroom. It will provide an introduction to the study and teaching of film, methods of analysis (and how to guide learners in film and television analysis),and key concepts of cinema and television studies (e.g. storytelling and narrative style, mise-en-scène, editing, etc.). Learning how to read and teach film with regard to various formal aspects will acquaint students with the aesthetic and narrative features, as well as the meaning of films (or film scenes) and traditions of film. Students will acquire the competency and analytic skills to critically read and interpret audiovisual media, and will learn how to work with film in class (incl. such questions as how to assess the students’ media literacy, for interest and ability may vary greatly within a class, so that they can teach a broad range to diverse students (age, abilities, interests)). Finally, we will create tasks and lesson plans centered on our findings.