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Popular Indian Animation films in English to Develop Effective Listening Skills in classroom

in Eastern India.

Manas MoulicAssistant Professor in Englishmanasmoulic2004@gmail.com

Guru Nanak Institute of Technology

Background & Objectives English is taught as Literature in schools. Learners have no idea about Listening Skills. But, University prescribes development of Listening

Comprehension.

Objectives:Enable learners to Listen effectively to GIE.Enable them to use Bottom – up & Top – Down

technique.Enable them to listen to facial expressions.

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Framework

The language processing technique to Effective Listening.

The bottom – up technique

Attention to

segmental features

like content words.

Attention to supra – segmental features

like stress, intonation.

The top – down technique

Ability to use past knowledge.

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Methods

Teacher’s Work:Setting up of Bottom – Up & Top – Down goals.Selecting popular animation films.Grading the targets and the task.Facilitating effective listening. Motivate, prepare & contextualize the learners. Distribution the Worksheets.

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Methods

Implementation Phase:Listening Effectively to popular animation film.Taking down flexible notes. Answering questions individually.Pairs or group work for discussion. Guidance to improve listening skillsRole play as post – listening activity.

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Results and Discussion

Bottom – Up Processing Targets: Identifying content word by the stress pattern. Identify specific information & organizational clues. Identify appropriate expression for various moods.

Top – Down Processing Targets:Compare information with their own experiences. Use the context and predict the next content.

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Results and Discussion

Teacher’s WorkReview the popular animation film and select. Set questions keeping in mind the targets. Question sequence should follow action sequence. Minimize external factors affecting effective listening. The video & audio quality should be excellent.Adequate Logistic support for sound amplification.

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Results and Discussion

Pre – Listening Phase:Ask questions on animation films to motivate. Prepare them to listen with pen and paper . Distribute the Worksheet.Encourage Reading of worksheets to contextualize. Start a guessing game on the content.Let them settle down to listen.

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Results and Discussion

While Listening Phase:Playing of the popular Indian animation films.Films used – The Pandavs in Hiding or Hanuman. Lerner’s effectively listening to the animation film.Taking down flexible notes.Their Use of Bottom-up & top-down techniques.

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Results and Discussion

Post – Listening Phase:Learners answer the Questions individually. They pair or group for peer review and discussion. Guidance given regarding Listening techniques to

use.Learner’s feedback sought on the task accomplished.Learners play Role as post – listening activity.

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Results and Discussion

Why Popular Indian Animation Films?Learners could concentrate better on the content. They remained mentally and emotionally motivated.Musical clues and prominent expressions provide

insight. Indian learners could immediately relate to the films.

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Results and Discussion

Problems with Hollywood films:Learners could hardly relate to Hollywood films. Actions being fast paced, facts received are

fragmented.Dialogues are in American English not in GIE. Unable to listen to the content words.Context and emotional expression more alien.More noisy.

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Results and Discussion

Advantages of Indian Animation Films:

No such problems with Indian animation films.Funny presentations spark the learner’s

imagination. Help the listeners to moderate their personal ego. Learners could remain free from emotional

disturbances.

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Results and Discussion

Advantages of Indian Animation Films:Minimum possibility of ‘wrong assumptions’. The films are Relevant.Facial expressions help learners to identify

emotions.Expressions does help in effective communication

process.Content has ‘transferable’ potential.Appeals equally to heterogeneous class of learners.

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Conclusion

See Classrooms as powerhouse of possibilities.Be thoughtful and innovative with everything.Use your own popular animation films so that:

Learners may relate to the content, Take interest in listening. Could learn more about using listening strategies.

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Recommendations

DosMake the learners feel the importance of listening.Motivate and prepare them accordingly.Use your own popular animation films.

Don'tsBeing complacent having no problem in listening.Allow internal / external factors affecting listening.

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Impact / Outcome

Popular animation films as appropriate listening tool.

Appropriate task formation to practice effective listening.

Studying facial expressions as other listening technique.

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Bibliographic entries

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Celce-Murcia, Marianne, ed. Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language. 3rd . United States of America: Heinle & Heinle, 2001.

Hanuman. Dir. V.G. Samant. 2005. Inc, Exforsys. Listening Skills : Why listening is important. 16

November 2007. 11 April 2012 <http://www.exforsys.com/career-center/listening-skills/why-listening-is-important.html>.

Lebauer, R. S. Learn to listen, listen to learn: Academic listening and note-taking. 2nd. White Plains: NY: Pearson Education, 2000.

Madagascar Escape2Africa. Dirs. Eric Darnell and Tom Mcgrath. Perf. Ben Stiller and Cris Rock. n.d.

The Pandavs in Hiding. Dir. Ashwin C Parulkar. 2000. 20

Thank you

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