Marion Geiger (California State University - San Marcos)
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Although film is interesting per se, it also is a great vector to teach media literacy, language, literature, or culture. This panel is interested in this more transitive aspect of film teaching: cinema is an art, but it is also a language. Although it reformulates reality in its own aesthetic form, its nature makes it uniquely qualified to gives access to a series of affects and experiences, and can help students learn to decipher cultural codes, learn a language or discover new ideas.
When using film in the classroom, our learning goals may emphasize different things: media literacy and analysis, narrative analysis, cultural knowledge or language skills. This panel invites talks about teaching methods and practices that combine at least two of these emphases. The panel invites both teachers of language and teachers of film in order to open a dialogue between different areas of expertise. The panel also invites innovative pedagogical approaches, as sometimes the more practical aspects of teaching with film are not obvious. How practically can we best use film to teach culture or language, but also, how does film allow us to teach differently and address students in a unique way? Both papers in French or English are welcome.