The aim of this essay is to investigate to what degree films and TV-programs are shown in two Swedish 8th grade English classes today and to see if this is a fruitful teaching method. The investigation was carried out with the help of a student survey, two teacher interviews and interviews following directly on their viewing of the TV-show Goal. The result was that the students do not seem to learn a great deal from watching films or TV-shows in English class. They hear words that they already know and this provides reinforcement, but they learn very few new words. However, watching films and TV-shows is a good way to motivate students to work with their ordinary classroom English. Films and TV-shows were shown regularly according to the interviewed teacher, but the students thought that they saw too few movies and TV-shows. The teachers saw movies and TV-shows as a useful teaching addition, but they thought that the students learned more by traditional methods. The students, on the other hand, thought that they learned a great deal from watching movies and enjoy doing so. The time used to show movies and TV-shows today seems to be sufficient. TV-shows and films should be used as motivation and as a complement to classroom instruction rather than as a teaching material in itself. / Lärarutbildning
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kau-4942 |
| Date | January 2009 |
| Creators | Olsson, Martin |
| Publisher | Karlstads universitet, Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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