From emotional engagement to cultural immersion, films are a great and powerful way to help students stay engaged and motivated to learn a language.
Through dialects, slangs and colloquial expressions, regular engagement with authentic native content helps students learn a language the way it’s actually spoken!
Ted Hope Film Produced "21 Grams" | Former Head of Content | Amazon Original Movies
Across language learning solutions, there is currently an industry-wide problem of high dropout rates due to the lack of student engagement. This has only increased as learning moved online almost overnight!
Many current language learning tools rely on tedious curricula and forms of delivery, such as flashcards and vocabulary exercises, which often provide little or no cultural and social context.
Films and videos are a great way to help students stay engaged and motivated by evoking empathy and cultural understanding - while being entertained at the same time!
Moreover, the average Gen Z student now spends at least four hours a day watching mobile videos. While traditional teaching methods struggle to keep students engaged, the modern students now respond to film- and video-based learning - which is at the heart of what we do at FilmDoo!
81.6% of participants expect to increase their their use of film and video content for language learning.
Professor Steven Krashen Professor of Linguistics & Education | University of South California
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About FilmDoo
Why hundreds of language schools and teachers around the world are using FilmDoo
FilmDoo Academy is used in a large variety of high impact ways to teach and reinforce students’ language learning in and out of the classroom, everything from online learning games to knowledge checks to homework and revision.
We will fully support you, your school and your students throughout this journey. Check out FilmDoo Academy today!
FilmDoo first launched as a movie-streaming platform helping people to discover and watch great films from around the world. FilmDoo now has over 280,000 registered users from 194 countries and over 3,000 films. Today, FilmDoo has one of the largest international film catalogues online.
In 2019, FilmDoo noticed that over 80% of their traffic was coming from language-related searches and keywords. In a survey that soon followed, over 70% of users said that the number one reason they are a watching a film on FilmDoo is because they are learning a foreign language. The company conducted more research and saw that there was an opportunity to expand into online edtech by providing film- and video-based learning which can help raise and retain student engagement through engaging films.
FilmDoo went on to develop an innovative layer of edtech that can now turn any film and video into an interactive lesson.
Today, FilmDoo is the world’s first edutainment platform to combine language learning with an extensive and powerful international catalogue of films.
FilmDoo will soon be launching dedicated language learning film collections for language schools and teachers to use to create teaching material and interactive lessons using our edtech tool
The key language collections we will be starting out with are: English, Spanish, French, Mandarin Chinese, German and Dutch.
If you are interested in finding out more and/ or to be notified when the language learning film collections go live, drop us a line!
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Bill Zart Managing Partner | INDY Translation