DIDACTIC POTENTIAL OF FEATURE FILMS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE CLASSES AT A NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY

Abstract

Modern technical means of teaching, including the Internet, provides huge opportunities for teaching a foreign language at a university. A large number of materials are available to both teacher and student: scientific and op-ed articles, interactive online materials, news resources and, finally, various types of video materials (short videos, educational, entertainment, full-length feature films). The use of feature films in a non-linguistic university, in our opinion, is a promising area of work that solves several tasks: increasing motivation, developing linguistic, socio-cultural and linguistic-cultural competencies, improving various mental functions (memory, attention), stimulating productive types of oral and written speech. The author of the article examines various aspects of the use of films in the university classroom: the advantages and disadvantages of this method, the principles of selecting a film for viewing, the question of the appropriateness of subtitles. In the article, on the example of the film “An Extraordinary Story for Christmas” (“The Man who invented Christmas”), filmed in 2017, which describes the period of Charles Dickens’ biography while creating his famous work “The Christmas Carol”, some types of pre-viewing, viewing and afterviewing exercises are displayed.