Films in Teaching Turkish as A Foreign Language: A Study of Classroom Practice

PrefaceFilms in Teaching Turkish as a Foreign Language: A study of Classroom Practice is preparedfor Turkish as a foreign language learners to improve communicative skills and intercultural competencies.This book is developed to develop students' listening and speaking comprehension in amultimedia classroom by Turkish language teachers. Films are widely used in teaching foreign languages.However, studies on using films in teaching Turkish as a foreign language are limited. Thisbook gives tips to a successful language learning. It'll also give you an understanding of how to usefilms efficiently in the classroom practices. The contents of this book have been designed to cater fordifferent learning needs.This book is developed with Before Viewing Activities such as guessing and vocabulary. DuringViewing Activities are developed to help students to follow the plot and events in the films such as pauseand play, guessing, correct the sentences, complete the missing words, repeat the phrases, and find theidiomatic/formulaic expressions, false and true, who said the sentences. Post Viewing Activities coversome comprehension questions, role plays, choose the correct one, and rewrite the sentences, writingand group discussion activities. Thus, this book can be used to improve communicative skills and interculturalcompetencies. The purpose of the book is to introduce the Turkish language learners to real lifesituations by providing daily language, used in authentic settings. The book consists of 8 films and 15activities for each film for B1-B2 level Turkish as a foreign language learners. Contents1. Introduction1.1. Movies as Audio Visual Tools in Foreign Language Teaching 1.2. Advantages of Using Video in Foreign Language Teaching1.3. The Importance of Movies in Turkish Language Teaching1.4. Using Films to develop language skills in Teaching Turkish to ForeignersFilm 1 Dedemin İnsanları (2011)Film 2 Mucize (2014)Film 3 Babam ve Oğlum (2005)Film 4 Bizim Hikâye (2015)Film 5 Av Mevsimi (2010)Film 6 Beyaz Melek (2007)Film 7 Umut (2009)Film 8 7. Koğuştaki Mucize (2019)