Technology Enhanced Movie Presentation with Focus on Foreign Language Anxiety and PBL Skills

Abstract

This paper presents a new pedagogical model of movie presentation as a foreign language course employing existing technologies to enhance motivation to communicate actively in a foreign language. The “Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL)” technologies adopted in our study are Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) system, presentation or editing software, learning management system (Moodle), and so on. After illustrating the outline of the system conducted in our study and description of the lesson plan, this paper argues that the proposed course was helpful as a new approach to academic presentation course in a foreign language teaching. A questionnaire research was conducted in our study concerning students’ awareness of their “Project-based Learning (PBL)” skills and foreign language anxiety. The results of our factor analyses of significant items showed that three factors were abstracted as underlying affecting structures; they are (i) Anxiety in the Classroom, (ii) Information and Computer Skills, and (iii) Class Engagement.