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Video and language comprehension
Iain MacWilliam has taught EFL in Lebanon, Belgium, and the Netherlands, where he served as British Council Director of Studies for three years. For the past four years, he has worked at the Institute for Applied Language Studies, University of Edinburgh, where, among other things, he has been involved in the development of home-produced video materials for language comprehension purposes.
Although recent years have seen an increasing volume of literature about video and language teaching, there has really been very little research into the suitability and effectiveness of the medium for this purpose. However, there have been studies in other fields, notably educational broadcasting research and communication studies, which, though set in the domain of first-language acquisition and comprehension, may have relevance for foreign-language teaching. This article identifies those research findings and observations which have a bearing on the comprehensibility of video when used for language input, and, in particular, the relationship between the aural and visual channels. The implications for future development are briefly discussed.
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