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\"\"The last few years, we\u2019ve witnessed the exponential rise of video being used in the classroom. This previous post<\/a> describes and outlines the reasons for the ascendancy of video. We are now a video, not a text based society.\u00a0 As I often say, “video IS the new textbook.”<\/p>\n

Lately, I\u2019ve had a number of interesting conversations with teachers thinking of adopting video as their new textbook. Many are thinking of adopting a Flipped Classroom model as an experiment. During our discussions I returned to a term I\u2019ve used over the years, \u201cExtensive Watching\u201c. I\u2019d like to outline this important concept for language learning here and get your own feedback, opinion, thoughts. (and this compliments what I\u2019ve also termed, \u201cNarrow Watching<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a big fan of extensive reading. It works. If done properly, it allows students to acquire a lot of fluency quickly (so long as equal attention is paid to speaking). However, the rub these days is that many students don\u2019t want to nor like reading. It\u2019s just a fact that I\u2019ve run across time and time again in the classroom. I think it has to do with;<\/p>\n

a) Visuality being an ever present force and medium now \u2013 through the internet, TV, film etc\u2026<\/p>\n

b) Communication. Youth are so connected, never alone and a book entails the place and discipline to be alone with self. Today\u2019s youth want shared experience, a social experience. A book is in their head, the images in their head \u2013 something is never shared. A film \/ video has an objective visual reference and is more shared\/social.<\/p>\n

As I\u2019ve outlined before<\/a>, the Gutenburg Galaxy is waining. The role of text is taking a back up role to the cool medium that is the visual realm. This entails a change on the part of teachers. We should now update Day and Bamford\u2019s classic and call it \u201cExtensive Watching\u201c. I took down the book from my shelf and revisited it. It can simply be re-written for this new media focus.<\/p>\n

Students \u201cwatch\u201d at their own level and through this massive watching of video with language in context, can, do, will achieve rapid language acquisition. That\u2019s where EnglishCentral is coming from but it could be any source of video that is at the appropriate level for the student and contains motivating, interesting content.<\/p>\n

I looked at pages 7-8<\/a> of the book, \u201cThe Characteristics of Extensive Reading<\/a>\u201c. I hereby end and hand the torch to Extensive Watching by rewriting this to outline the characteristics of extensive watching (and in a future post, I\u2019ll outline the differences, however obvious, with the \u201cextensive listening\u201d approach).<\/p>\n

The Characteristics of Extensive Watching<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Students WATCH as much as possible. (preferably outside of the classroom \u2013 following the flipped model of the language classroom)<\/p>\n

2. A variety of videos\/film is available in a variety of genres and topics so as to encourage watching for different reasons and in different ways.<\/p>\n

3. Students select what they want to watch and have the freedom to stop watching when the video fails to interest them.<\/p>\n

4. The purposes of watching are related to pleasure, information and general understanding. The purposes are determined by the nature of the videos and the interests of the students.<\/p>\n

5. Watching is its own reward. There are few exercises after watching and only for quickly reinforcing the material.<\/p>\n

6. The videos are well within the linguistic competence (level) of the student. Video gives context and allows for a \u201cwider\u201d leveling. Dictionaries are used after the viewing and rarely during the watching of the video. Subtitles in the L2 may or may not be used depending on the objectives of the learning.<\/p>\n

7. Watching is both shared and individual. Videos if possible, to be discussed and used as scaffolding material into purposeful communication and speaking practice.<\/p>\n

8. Watching speed is at the natural rate of the media\u2019s speakers. Whole watching is the recommended practice rather than stopping and reviewing video.<\/p>\n

9. Teachers orient students to the goals of the program (communicate the rationale), explain the methodology (how to) and track what students watch, and guide students to get the most out of the program.<\/p>\n

10. The teacher is a role model and watcher. They participate and watch what students watch. The extensive watching classroom is a place of equality and a decreased power dynamic between teacher and learner.<\/p>\n

To wit: Extensive Watching works and fosters student self learning and monitoring. It also has the added benefit of having pragmatic features of language (body language, postures, gestures etc\u2026) that help the learner immensely (think of how a baby \u201cmakes meaning out of sound\u201d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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