Perceiving and Enacting Language and Culture from Film in a Tertiary English Classroom in Vietnam

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Truong Bach Le

Abstract

This paper aims to introduce a way of teaching cultural language learning
through film in the classroom. It will report on a trialled classroom-bound session
where the teacher guided the students to discover sociocultural features in a film
scene.Theexperienceengaged students inacognitiveexplorationand physicalexperimentation of these elements with the teacher provided scaffolding support for the
students’understandingand enactingof thecontext-influenced verbaland non-verbal
behaviors. The participating students’ feedback indicated their acknowledgment of
the benefits and challenges encountered in this integrated way of cultural language
learning throughfilm.Theexperienceholds promisefor aneffective way togainentry
into the actions and mindsets of the people in the target language society.

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