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What Body Language in Film Teaches That Vocabul...

Here is a question worth sitting with: what percentage of a language is actually carried by words? Linguists have been arguing about the exact number for decades, but the consensus...

What Body Language in Film Teaches That Vocabul...

Here is a question worth sitting with: what percentage of a language is actually carried by words? Linguists have been arguing about the exact number for decades, but the consensus...

How to Teach a Language Film to Students Who Ha...

The moment comes somewhere in the first five minutes. You press play. The opening credits roll — in Spanish, in French, in Italian. The actors start speaking, fast and accented...

How to Teach a Language Film to Students Who Ha...

The moment comes somewhere in the first five minutes. You press play. The opening credits roll — in Spanish, in French, in Italian. The actors start speaking, fast and accented...

Why “Do You Understand?” Is the Worst Question ...

At some point in every class, after every explanation, after every scene, a teacher asks it. “Does everyone understand?” And the class nods. Or goes silent. Or someone says yes....

Why “Do You Understand?” Is the Worst Question ...

At some point in every class, after every explanation, after every scene, a teacher asks it. “Does everyone understand?” And the class nods. Or goes silent. Or someone says yes....

The Student Who Already Has a Grade in Mind — H...

There is a particular kind of student who arrives at a film unit with a spreadsheet in their head. Not the one for learning. The one that tells them exactly...

The Student Who Already Has a Grade in Mind — H...

There is a particular kind of student who arrives at a film unit with a spreadsheet in their head. Not the one for learning. The one that tells them exactly...

The Student Who Speaks Fluently but Writes Like...

You know this student. She can tell you the whole plot of the film in Italian — animated, expressive, getting the tenses mostly right — and then you ask her...

The Student Who Speaks Fluently but Writes Like...

You know this student. She can tell you the whole plot of the film in Italian — animated, expressive, getting the tenses mostly right — and then you ask her...

How to Teach Time Expressions in a Foreign Lang...

Here is a scene that happens in every language classroom, at every level, in every language. You have taught the vocabulary. Students know ayer, ya, antes de que. They can...

How to Teach Time Expressions in a Foreign Lang...

Here is a scene that happens in every language classroom, at every level, in every language. You have taught the vocabulary. Students know ayer, ya, antes de que. They can...

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