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Lights, Camera, Action: Showcasing Student Work #154

Sat, Jun 20, 10:30-11:05 JST | Zoom G
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A film-making project not only allows students to practice language skills, but also leads to a final product, one which has creative value to students and the world (Ford & Kluge 2015). Performance in Education proponents, Newmann and Wehlage (1995, p. 14), state that having students share their accomplishments with wider audiences through “outside” performance is a necessary step for what they call “authentic pedagogy.” The distribution phase is an essential aspect of the film-making process that provides great opportunities for the authentic performance of their product, but these works often get left in the dark. This presentation is aimed toward for teachers interested in film-making or interested in having their students take a more active role in the final stage by promoting and showcasing their films outside of the classroom or by participating in film festivals or contests. The presentation will detail the activities of English language students in a film-making course as they prepared to showcase their films at a school event and describe the development of an upcoming international student film festival, contest, and symposium for English language teachers and students to be held in Nagoya. Discussion on student films and other showcasing activities will follow.

Ashley Ford

Ashley Ford

Nagoya City University
Ashley Ford is a language lecturer at Nagoya City University in Nagoya, Japan. Her areas of interest include Creative Project-Based Learning and Performance in Education, especially through film-making and music performance activities. Her current research activities focus on the role of showcasing student work. She is currently organizing a film festival for English language learners, which she hopes you will encourage your students to enter!
David Kluge

David Kluge

Nanzan University
David Kluge (Professor, Nanzan University) has been teaching English in Japan for 35 years. He is a founding officer of the CALL SIG and founding coordinator of the Performance in Education (PIE) SIG. His research areas of interest are speech, drama, debate, oral interpretation/readers theatre, oral communication, material writing, and composition. He has co-written three composition textbooks (POWERwriting series, Cengage Learning) one oral communication book (In My Life, Macmillan LanguageHouse), and one chapter in a CLIL textbook (Asahi Press).