Subtitled sitcoms as a teaching resouce for improving listening comprehension at secondary level
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2018-08
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Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
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“In the modern era of English Language Teaching (ELT), the trend seems to go towards a more communicative language teaching rather than a traditional grammar teaching; therefore, students tend to encounter some challenges when working with exercises presented in a language different to their mother tongue, as a teacher. Rost (2011) noticed some factors that may affect the performance of a listening activity such as: hesitations, false starts, pauses, background noise, variable speed and variable accent. These factors contribute to create some difficulties when working with elements such as audio recordings, videos or any multimedia elements during a lesson. Given this, students tend to have a wider margin of error because many, or most of them, have never worked with something more than texts or written exercises. Because of this, when presented with a multimedia element, such as a video, which is fully spoken in English and are required to work with, students tend to miss information needed to successfully respond to what they are required”.
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