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The purpose of the paper is to suggest a way to get college students to become active in screen English classes. In order to do this, the concept of media literacy (Hobbs & Jensen, 2009; Lee, 2018) has been borrowed. Two Marvel movies, Captain America:
The First Avenger (Johnston, 2011) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (Russo & Russo, 2014) were used. Four college level students participated in the experiment.
The teacher asked five questions about the movies, and provided movie clips to help the participants answer the questions. After the lessons, the participants were interviewed. The results showed three positive findings. The first is that media literacy involves asking questions which stimulate curiosity about the content. The second is that media literacy has a focus on contents or the subject, not on language items.
Because students are digital natives, they will develop and create stories with the use of digital technology. This will result in students’ active engagement in screen English classes. The third is that the teacher should combine student curiosity about the subject with relevant English language learning. Current students prefer to create a new world through English not to learn English through subjects or contents. The consequences of this will be discussed. |
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