Lights, Camera, English!

Enhancing language proficiency with movies and AI

driven transmedia learning

Jason Yun Joon Lee, Ph.D

 WHO AM I
Assistant Professor at Daegu National University of Education
English Education major
Research Interest in Media, TV shows, Video games in ESL settings
Father of two children and two cats
Q
How do you think we learn
language?
Share your experience!!
 ENGLISH FOUR SKILLS

SPEAKING LISTENING

READING WRITING
ARE WE MISSING
ANYTHING?
 CONTENTS OF THIS TEMPLATE
Hello, everyone. My name is Joon-hee Cha and I would like to talk about my favorite
character, today. My favorite character is “Terminator” and he is from the movie called
“The Terminator.”

The Terminator is a hero, who comes from the future in this movie. He has a mechanical
body. His mission is to protect his mater’s family against bad guys.

The Terminator is tall and strong. He looks stubborn but is thoughtful when helping his
master’s family. At last he saves them by risking his life, because of his personality.

There are two reasons for liking the the Terminator. First, he is good at fighting and
defends enemies easily. Secondly, he is a unique character I haven’t seen before.
 IMPORTANT FACTORS IN ESL

President of U.S.
What do Australians eat for
CULTURE
breakfast?
How do we order a meal?

English language and

four skills. LANGUAGE COMMUNITY
Starwars vs Star Trek
We Are!

SWEET SPOT
 Language
Learning Myths
 Myths busted!!
MYTHS
- Children are better language
learners than adults
- Language is acquired not learned.
Adults can only learn.
- Knowing grammar and vocabulary
will help my English
- Pronunciation should be fixated in
the beginning.
- L1 learning and L2 learning are not
that much different
MYTHS BUSTED
- No, they actually take longer to
learn language.
- Only Krashen thinks this is true.
- Yes it will but not those two alone.
- You can, but that’s only a small
piece of language learning.
- No, they are absolutely different!
However, they do share similar
traits
Language Learning Procedure
L1 and L2

Single words - Pivot words -

Chunks/Routines - Chunks + Routines
 HOW SHOULD WE

Q TEACH LANGUAGE?

Is there a right answer?

Q ANY CHALLENGES?

What would students struggle with?

 LET’S TALK
ABOUT CONTENT
 Suits
Carl: See anything?
Dug: No, my pack is not following us! Boy they are dumb.
Carl: This is crazy. I finally meet my childhood hero and he’s trying to
kill us! What a joke.
Dug: Hey, I know a joke. A squirrel walks up to a tree and says I forgot
to store acorns for winter and now I am dead. Ha! It is funny because
the squirrel gets dead.
 LET’S TALK

M ABOUT MEDIA!!

Media as material
1. what should you teach from a
movie?
2. what kind of vocabs or expression?
3. What to teach about content?
Story?

—Questions about using movies

 TS
Toy Story 4

HOW WOULD I TEACH WITH MOVIES?

 I didn’t teach a single word about English
Combat Carls: Hut! Hut! Hut! Hut! Hut! Hut! Hut!

Bo Peep: Carl! Where you headed?

Combat Carl #1: Combat Carl just heard there's a birthday party at the playground on Main Street.

Combat Carl #2: Rumor has it, they got two pinatas.

Combat Carl #3: That could be 20 to 30 kids.

Bo Peep: Nice! [High-fives Giggle]

Combat Carl #1: Oh, yeah! Combat Carl's getting played with! [Two of the Combat Carls high-five each other
while the other one is left hanging] You guys in?

Bo Peep: You bet! Woody, you are gonna love this!

One more Example
 TO-DO LIST

● Relate the scene with story

● Is it too difficult for your
students? Nah…. it’s okay
● Find other materials that
relates to the story
● Explain as much as you can!
● Make something!
 TO-DO LIST

● Read something related to

the story.
● Read to students!
● If students can read, let
them read the part!
● If not, we can listen to
books too!
 TO-DO LIST

● Show students stories

something they would enjoy.
● Have students research on
their own! Ask them what
they want to do.
● Find materials yourself that
relates to the story. In other
words find different platforms
● Have students learn the
theme-based words rather
than everyday expressions
How about with A.I.?
https://lovo.ai/
Ask ChatGPT to generate a script
https://studio.d-id.com/
TRANSMEDIA LEARNING
EXAMPLES
WHAT IS TRANSMEDIA?

● Use of Multiple media and technological platforms

● Multiple media may tell different stories but explore a
core experience (common theme), which can be
experienced through multiple narrative perspectives
● Consideration placed on user’s lifestyle, media habits,
context (place)
● Audience co-creates with storytellers resulting in
participatory design and emergent culture
HOW TO TRANSMEDIA
LEARNING?

-Use graphic novels, comics, videos, machinima, and film to

provide back-story
-Use social media and user generated content for
commentary developing into a storyline
-Use mobile, television/web for unfolding episodes.
-Provide several points of entry into the story
-Use all media, not just digital media
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT SUPERMAN?
 THE FIVE STEP PROCEDURE

1 2 3

GROUP OF 3 OR 4 INTRODUCE YOUR TEAM WATCH THE SCENE

5 4

DISCUSS THE FINDINGS HIGHLIGHT!

“What is superman’s weakness?”

“Why is superman on earth?”

—Two Questions
SUPERMAN MAN OF STEEL
BATMAN VS SUPERMAN
JUSTICE LEAGUE
 LEARNING? WHAT?
WHERE?
● Students are subconsciously receiving input of the target
language
● Not focusing too much on language, rather on content
● Multiple media platforms helps creating more knowledge
● It’s still better than textbooks no?
 DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?

EMAIL: JLEE@DNUE.AC.KR
TWITTER: @PHDBUFFED
THANKS!