Title: Jamie Oliver YouTube Videos to Promote Cross-Cultural Understanding in the Language Classroom
Stream: Nurturing Creativity & Innovation: New, Innovative & Radical Education
Presentation Type: Workshop Presentation
Authors:
David Melhuish, Macao Polytechnic Institute, Macao
Abstract:
Cross-cultural communication and exploiting the increasingly wide-spread access to youtube and other short videos provides teachers with opportunities to improve language output and study skills of their precious students.
In my institute, (Macao Polytechnic Institute) I am devising teaching resources to exploit the short cooking videos of British chef and restauranteur, Jamie Oliver. These teaching aids provide fantastic resources for visual and auditory learning. Students are studying for Hotel Management and general English. These carefully prepared and tested authentic resources help students become more aware and more curious about ingredients and dishes from other cultures and presentation steps. The videos feature similar ingredients and cooking equipment (from common to less-familiar), allowing review and recycling of lexis and grammar. Exotic ingredients provide a scaffolding for cultural knowledge from the UK and beyond.
My fully-immersive workshop will explain rationale behind these teaching materials and the integral learning skills that they support. I will demonstrate a short video with accompanying lessons so that teachers may be easily able to transfer these materials and ideas to their own classes and adapt as necessary.
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