How To Use CD and DVD To Learn English

COMPUTER ASSiSTED LANGUAGE LEARNING

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CD-ROM (Compact Disc Read-Only Memory) looks exactly like an audio CD but contains multimedia files that are programmed to use text, images, audio and video to provide interactivity.

DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) is similar to CD-ROM in that a variety of data can be stored on them, but they have much greater storage capacity than CD-ROM.

Using CD-Roms with learner in the classroom

There are several types of activities that can be done to integrate a CD-ROM into your lesson:

• In the single computer classroom or shool, pairs of learners can take turns to do few CD-ROM activities, for example a couple of grammar drag-and-drop activities, while the rest of the class are busy with paper-based activities on the same grammar point. This introduces variety into the classroom.

• If you have access to a data projector and one a computer, CD-ROM or DVD content can be projected into a screen for the whole class to view and work on together, which learners taking turns to take control of the computer mouse. This is especially useful with video content, which in it self adds variety to the lesson.

• If the school has a computer room or self-access centre, the teacher can pragramme in regular short sessions, for example once a week or forthnight, in which learners work alone or in pairs on CD-ROM materials during class time.

Using DVD with learner in the classroom

one particularly useful feature of DVD is that there is oftn an option to view subtitles along with a video dialogue.

Here are a few ideas:

• The subtitles for a dialogue are hidden during a first (and even second) viewing how much the learners understood can then be checked with comprehension questions, and the dialogue played a final time with the subtitles displayed.

• Learners listen to short section of a DVD dialogue several times, transcribe them and then check their version of the transcript with subtitles.

• Learners watch a short DVD dialogue between two characters with the audio switched off, reading the subtitles several times. Pairs are then invited to each take character role, and to read the subtitles for their character at the same time the dialogue is played again, still with audio switched off. This can be repeated several times. Can the learners keep up with the lip movements of their characters? The dialogue is played with the audio switched on.

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