Presentation to language teachers

1. Screening Languages:
Short films for MFL
Mark Reid BFI Education mark.reid@bfi.org.uk

2. French Year 8 Cineminis DVD Institute of Education
Esmee Fairbairn funded research
Lampton and Robert Clack schools
Reframing Languages 2008/09

3. Working with…
Screening Languages (2013-15)

4. • 7 schools/ 10 teachers
• Hounslow, Barking &
Dagenham, Barnet,
Lambeth, E-ACT
• Year 7/8
• French, Spanish, German
17 schools/ 22 teachers
8 LAs, 2 academy chains
Cross-KS3
French, Spanish, German,
Mandarin, Turkish, Arabic
Year 1 Year 2
892 pupils over 2 years
Screening Languages (2013-15)

5. Developing…

6. Pupils
•The 4 skill areas
•Cultural awareness
•Engagement and motivation
•Confidence
Teachers
•Subject knowledge
•Pedagogic knowledge
•Confidence
•Professional satisfaction

7. Producing…

8. • 57 Schemes of Work/ 150 lessons
• 7 CPD days
• 7 ITT sessions
• 36 lesson observations
• 15 Reflective Logs and 22 blog posts
• www.screeninglanguages.org

9. Why film?

10. Why film?
‘Comprehensible input’ and ‘forms of life’
Culturally rich language context
Engagement for children

11. Why shorts?
• New to children
• Manageability
• High quality
- cinematic

12. Shorts pedagogy
• ‘Tell Me’ grids - in target language
• Hiding and revealing
• Stopping and starting

13. character setting
Story
Qu’est-ce qu’il
se passe
Mood
ambience
Qui? Ou? Quand?
‘Tell Me’ grids
Aidan Chambers/ CLPE

14. Short film..

15. puzzles patterns
surprises predictions

16. Value for Teachers

17. • New pedagogical knowledge and approaches
• Confidence in exploring film as a cultural
medium
• Changed expectations of pupils
• Greater cultural awareness in their teaching
• Confidence to take risks - experimentation
• Imagination and originality
• Motivation and professional development
Value for Teachers

18. Value for Pupils
• Improved motivation towards learning another
language
• Improved attainment in listening, speaking,
reading and writing
• Develops cultural knowledge and interest in
film as a cultural form

19. Speaking skills
during viewing
• Learners report phrases with or without
help of teacher/sub-title e.g. on poster
or PP
• ‘Predictive speech’ - what is he/she
going to say/do?
• Learner originated questions
• Descriptions and summaries while the
film is running (no sound)

20. Speaking skills
after viewing
• Discussion of film – likes/dislikes re
characters, aspects of film
• Information gap activities and role play
• Storyboard - continuing the story, alternative
endings
• Guessing games: describing
characters/events
• Re-sequencing mixed-up stills from film,
relating correct sequence

21. Film resources for MFL
• Kirikou et la Sorciere (1998, Fr, West African, BFI
films; dir Michel Ocelot); also Azur and Azmar/ The
Prince’s Quest by same director
• BFI shorts: Cine-minis DVD
• BFI Southbank language study days
• DVD of Courts Metrages: Courts de Recre and
Enfantillages, Institut Francais;
• Kurz und Gut: Goethe Institut
• ALL yahoo group on using film via Helen Myers
• www.screeninglanguages.org
• FILTA @FILTA_community
• HOME in Manchester @HOME_mcr

24. www.screeninglanguages.org
BFI Southbank study days:
A level Spanish event Iciar Bollain: 20 Jan
GCSE Spanish: 4 May
http://bit.ly/1NSc94n