Skyping 1

Skype 1

      We chose the essay: Playing the videotext: A media literacy perspective on video-mediated L2 listening. This essay discusses whether videotext could help students learn the second language. In the skyping, we are discussing the two points. First, is to have background knowledge when using the videotext. Bonnie provides a very good example about her experience. She came from People’s Republic of China, and when she watches Taiwan TV shows, she can’t understand why people feel funny. This example proves the viewpoint in the essay. Students need the pre-teaching, so that they can understand what the video is going to show before then, or they could fail to understand and feel frustrated.

     The second point we are discussing is about the subtitle of Youtube. As before said, background knowledge is important, because it could help us to identify whether the information is right or not. Take the subtitle of Youtube for example. The google translator provides the subtitle depending on the voice it detects, but most of time, the subtitle is wrong. If people are good at listening, the mistake could not make problem. However, the automatic knowledge could also lead us to misunderstand the text. So without media literacy, it is still having problem with using videotext to learn second language.