Reaching the World through English language

When you teach by using movies, this can help your students to establish differences among many cultures and in the same way to develop and improve abilities such as understanding, critical thinking, reflection, and values such as respect, tolerance, equality and others related to the culture and its perception.

On the other hand, movies can show what is real and take into account some characteristics which make of the humanity a complicated frame, where many points of view and ideas about the meaning of the world are involved. That is why, the goal of this kind of strategies is to give the students the opportunity to be conscious about everything what implies the cultural development.

Concluding, we can say that movies are a very useful tool for English teaching in areas such as: understanding of the cultures, students' and teachers' reflections, ideas exchange and helping students to analyze possible situations that can occur in our daily environment. Movies can also facilitate to understand the religions, customs, traditions and the diversity of ideas that differ from our own culture.

By: Susana Bello & Diana Peñaloza (2009)

Analysis from Stern(1967) and Zoreda(2006) articles.

Stern: USING FILMS IN ENGLISH TEACHING COMPOSITON