Saturday 12:30 - 1:20 PM
TTI 403 
Movies: A Treasury for Communicative and Cross-Cultural EFL Teaching 

In teaching EFL, a key to success is to carefully select the appropriate classroom approach. Having completed reading and grammar-oriented EFL classes in high school, many Japanese EFL students are eager to learn communicative English skills at the college level. In response to this need, American movies can become a useful teaching material in the Japanese EFL classroom in two ways: (1) to provide the students with listening comprehension practice/training and (2) to enable the students to become more familiar with different cultural aspects depicted in the movie scenes. In this presentation, the presenter will report how he "activated" his elective EFL classes by showing the movie Rainman. Moreover, based on the results of a questionnaire given to the students, he will also discuss their responses to studying EFL through watching movies.