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b. Documentary Films
Documentary films present information on many subjects. They show men life and work throughout the world. They explain events in science and processes
in technology, and illustrate various aspects of life in nature.
c. Experimental and avant-garde Films
Experimental films are made for many reasons. The film maker may wish to express personal experiences or viewpoints in ways that would seem eccentric
in mainstream context. The film maker may also use staging to express distinct feelings or ideas. Any sort of footage may be used for several avant-garde films.
4. Advantages of Movie
Harmer 2002: 282 states that the advantages of using film in teaching and learning process are:
a. Seeing language in use
One of the main advantages of movie or film is that students do not just hear language, they see it too. This greatly aids comprehension, since for example,
general meaning and moods are often conveyed though expression, gesture and other visual clues. Thus we can observe how intonation can match facial
expression. All such, paralinguistic features give valuable meaning clues and help viewers to see beyond what they are listening to, and thus interpret the text more
deeply.
b. Cross cultural awareness
A film allows students to look at situations far beyond their classrooms. This is especially useful if hey want to see, for example, typical British „body
language „ when inviting someone out, or how American speak to waiters. Film is
also of great values in giving students a chance to see such things as what kinds of food people eat in other countries and what they wear.
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c. The power of creation
When the students make their own film as media in teaching and learning process, they are given the potential to create something memorable and
enjoyable. The camera operators and directors suddenly have considerable power. The task of filmmaking can provoke genuine creative and communicative uses of
the language, with students finding themselves doing new things in English.
d. Motivation
Most students show an increased level of interest when they have a chance to see language in use as well as hear it, and when this is coupled with interesting
tasks. According to JE Champoux in his journal 2007, there are some
advantages of film in teaching:
a. Films are a comfortable, familiar medium to contemporary students that can
keep student interest in the theories and concepts under discussion. Students can see the theories and concepts in action. In more than a figurative sense,
theories and concepts leap from the screen. b.
Films also are an economical substitute for field trips and other real world visits. While most films are fiction, they can offer powerful experiences that
students are unlikely to have in a classroom. Such experiences take less time than field trips and do not have the expense of travel.
c. Films offer both cognitive and affective experiences. They can provoke good
discussion, assessment of ones values, and assessment of self if the scenes have strong emotional content.
Other advantage stated by Katchen 1995, he says that cartoon films or animation movies usually tell a simple story that is easy to follow. Cartoon story
usually have a simple plot that can be exploited for classroom use
http:mx.nthu.edu.twkatchenprofessionalcartoons.htm.
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According to Guildea 1990 in http:www.scribd.comUsing-movies-and videos-to-teach-English-vocabulary-to-the10th-form-students.htm, the advantage
of the movies usage in teaching is as follow. “Video pictures improve sentence production for many words. The
learners who watch video pictures are able to produce a higher percentage of acceptable sentences using the most difficult target words than the
learner who read only the narratives or those who read both the narratives
and definitions.” While Lucille Lever 2009 in her paper of promoting writing skill in ESL
classroom, she stated that pictures, cartoons and comic strips contained elements that pleased the eye, relaxed the body, and stimulated writing production in
language lessons. Using cartoons as a springboard developed the skills of grammar and conversation in writing; it stimulated the imagination and results in
creative language production.
5. Definition of Animation Movie
