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Originally Posted by DJDD
I agree with the rest of your comments but this one I find hard to accept.
Isn't there a course for visual communication in schools? it is there that students could critically review a movie/dvd/etc.
We have a 19-year old working for us and he did not study any novels just the movie adaptations. I still cannot believe that!
My wife did not study English in Years 11 and 12 but read voraciously and has a wider vocabulary, is wider read, and speaks/writes/understands English much better than most. And English was not spoken at home.
I submit, based upon the above, that studying a DVD is not the same as studying novels, etc., and that reading instead of watching movies is the best way to improve the use of English by students.
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I don't know what they are doing over your way but here students must have a good working knowledge of all types of media and as such study all forms. If all your english teachers do is show video's then you have a serious problem. We do not have a visual communications course over here. It is all covered in general english. We do have another course (english literature) in which the focus is the study of the classics and is taken by the more able students. The problem with lit is that it always gets gets scaled down and the students recieve a lower TER even though the level of difficulty is higher. Go figure.
Mark