LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:1 January 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
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Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Science Fiction Movies as a Matrix for
Teaching Grammatical and Lexical Items

Dr. R. Saravana Selvan
M.A. (Eng.), M.A. (Pol.Sci.), M.Phil., M.Ed., P.G.D.J., P.G.D.T.E., Ph.D.
B. Sivakami, M.Phil. (Eng.), Ph.D. Scholar (Full-Time)

Science Fiction and “Edutainment”

“A picture is worth a thousand words” goes the adage. When a picture comes alive, it produces wonders. Movies with such wonderful quality provide a plethora of opportunities for teaching grammatical items and have also become one of the main concerns of the modern way of teaching. Among the various genres of movies, science fiction occupies an important place inside a classroom, on account of the fascinating nature of innovative ideas introduced through them.

Technological advancement is a boon for the teachers to use various electronic tools of communication for developing the language skills of students within the classroom.

Language teaching is facilitated through the availability of many of these tools and, in turn, creates the situations, where teachers become facilitators for the students, helping them acquire the language.

Science fiction movies, originally a means of entertainment, have now turned into a source of edutainment with their use in the language class. The dual purpose of these types of movies makes them fit enough to be learning material, since they receive the undivided attention of students across the disciplines, apart from the educational value they possess.

This is only the beginning part of the article. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Dr. R. Saravana Selvan
M.A. (Eng.), M.A. (Pol.Sci.), M.Phil., M.Ed., P.G.D.J., P.G.D.T.E., Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Head i/c
Department of English
Bharathiar University
Coimbatore-641046
Tamilnadu
India
raja_saravanan@rediffmail.com

B. Sivakami
M.A., (Eng.), M.Phil. (Eng.), M.Ed., Ph.D. Scholar (Full-Time)
Department of English
Bharathiar University
Coimbatore-641046
Tamilnadu
India
rekachandran55555@yahoo.co.in

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