Using Video Materials to Facilitate Students’ Creative Thinking and Improve Their English Skills.

Bogdan Pavliy

In this era of multimedia, it is now possible to incorporate video into the classroom. In his presentation, Mr. Pavliy demonstrated the problems of dwindling student motivation and learner anxiety. Following audience reflection and brainstorming Pavliy showed that these problems can be addressed by using materials that are both entertaining to students and stimulate students' imaginations. After explaining the theoretical basis of using video in class as an exercise in task-based language teaching while generating intrigue and improving motivation. Using examples from his teaching, Pavliy demonstrated ways of using videos (easily downloaded from Youtube) to grab students' attention and then have students engage in prediction tasks and reflect on the accuracy of their predictions. Everyone left the meeting with some great ideas on how to motivate students and tap students' creative potential using video materials.