Reaching Out to an Audience: Using Movie Maker in Nurses' English class

Educating and creating public awareness about health should stimulate and impact. This paper shall discuss the use of a task-based approach by exploiting technology, explicitly the use of Movie Maker in an ESL classroom among nurses at college, as a valuable alternative in reaching out to the public...

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Main Authors: Zuraina, Ali, Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim, Nor Yazi, Khamis, Suriya Kumar, Sinnadurai
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Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5084/
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spelling ump-50842018-06-12T01:46:45Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5084/ Reaching Out to an Audience: Using Movie Maker in Nurses' English class Zuraina, Ali Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim Nor Yazi, Khamis Suriya Kumar, Sinnadurai PE English Educating and creating public awareness about health should stimulate and impact. This paper shall discuss the use of a task-based approach by exploiting technology, explicitly the use of Movie Maker in an ESL classroom among nurses at college, as a valuable alternative in reaching out to the public. As a part of their English language assessment, 70 first year student nurses from Kuantan Nursing College (Malaysia) enrolled in a one-day workshop in producing their own movie. In groups of three to four, the students were given the autonomy to choose topics related to a disease, and to be prepared beforehand. At the end of the 2-hour preparation, members of each group got the chance to explain the disease with the help of the movie of their creation. Through questionnaires and interviews, the sample found the effort significant to them as it has helped them to make the explanation not only more interesting but more vivid with the help of moving pictures, relevant sounds and bold or highlighted important words. Despite their acceptance of the technology the sample found that they need to be more careful with their choice of words, especially in treatments, in order to make more impact on their audience. 2009 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5084/1/pbmsk-2009-zuraina-ReachingOutToAudience.pdf Zuraina, Ali and Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim and Nor Yazi, Khamis and Suriya Kumar, Sinnadurai (2009) Reaching Out to an Audience: Using Movie Maker in Nurses' English class. In: Australasian Nurse Educators Conference 2009, 30 Sept - 02 October 2009 , Christchurch Convention Centre, Christchurch , New Zealand. pp. 1-9.. (Unpublished)
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Zuraina, Ali
Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim
Nor Yazi, Khamis
Suriya Kumar, Sinnadurai
Reaching Out to an Audience: Using Movie Maker in Nurses' English class
description Educating and creating public awareness about health should stimulate and impact. This paper shall discuss the use of a task-based approach by exploiting technology, explicitly the use of Movie Maker in an ESL classroom among nurses at college, as a valuable alternative in reaching out to the public. As a part of their English language assessment, 70 first year student nurses from Kuantan Nursing College (Malaysia) enrolled in a one-day workshop in producing their own movie. In groups of three to four, the students were given the autonomy to choose topics related to a disease, and to be prepared beforehand. At the end of the 2-hour preparation, members of each group got the chance to explain the disease with the help of the movie of their creation. Through questionnaires and interviews, the sample found the effort significant to them as it has helped them to make the explanation not only more interesting but more vivid with the help of moving pictures, relevant sounds and bold or highlighted important words. Despite their acceptance of the technology the sample found that they need to be more careful with their choice of words, especially in treatments, in order to make more impact on their audience.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Zuraina, Ali
Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim
Nor Yazi, Khamis
Suriya Kumar, Sinnadurai
author_facet Zuraina, Ali
Azwin Arif, Abdul Rahim
Nor Yazi, Khamis
Suriya Kumar, Sinnadurai
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title Reaching Out to an Audience: Using Movie Maker in Nurses' English class
title_short Reaching Out to an Audience: Using Movie Maker in Nurses' English class
title_full Reaching Out to an Audience: Using Movie Maker in Nurses' English class
title_fullStr Reaching Out to an Audience: Using Movie Maker in Nurses' English class
title_full_unstemmed Reaching Out to an Audience: Using Movie Maker in Nurses' English class
title_sort reaching out to an audience: using movie maker in nurses' english class
publishDate 2009
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5084/
http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/5084/1/pbmsk-2009-zuraina-ReachingOutToAudience.pdf
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