Teaching with Video: Integrating Modern Technology into the English
Language Classroom
As CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) develops into the dominant approach
of English teaching in many areas of the world, language teachers who advocate this
approach rack their brains in attempts to make their class more communicative. For
the purpose of offering more insights into the effective practice of CLT, this paper
looks at how modern technology (video) may be employed to assist classroom
teaching. It primarily enumerates the major benefits of video, and then expatiates on
the types of video to be used in the classroom, coupled with suggestions on how
teachers may work with each type respectively. Subsequently, general video teaching
techniques in pre-viewing, viewing, and post-viewing sessions are summarized and
problems in video use identified. Eventually, it looks at intriguing and valuable videomaking activities that teacher may have students carry out in or out of class.
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