Integrating Viewing into Classroom Practice

Abstract

In response to the changing modern communication environment, a number of education systems around the world have modified their literacy curricula to integrate visual skills alongside listening, reading, speaking and writing skills. In this article, we explore why viewing is increasingly important in ELT and how teachers can incorporate viewing into their teaching practice. It offers tips on how teachers can help students understand the viewing process in the classroom. It also discusses how to develop students' vision outside of the classroom through Broad Vision and Narrow Vision approaches using easy access to movies and TV shows on streaming platforms. Students should be able to interpret multimodal texts effectively. By helping students do this, we connect their life worlds to the classroom. In addition to helping students acquire information, viewing helps them appreciate the ideas and experiences presented by others in a multimodal manner, and develops his multimodal communicative competence.