Findings

Evidence and comments

• In student questionnaires, 75.6% of students gave 4 or 5 out of five when asked if the questions were effective in helping them to understand the movie.
• 64.4% gave 4 or 5 out of 5 when asked if the work on movies had helped them to improve in giving reasons for answers. 84% gave 4 or 5 out of five when asked if the movie lessons were interesting for them.
• In the interviews, students commented on questions which they felt were interesting and had been successful in getting students to discuss and think. A number of questions were mentioned. (please refer to video for details)
• Some students, however, commented that the movies shown were “too old”, and that dividing the movie into short sections made it harder to follow and maintain interest.

Discussing questions in class helped students to think and write better

Did discussion help with writing?

• 60% of students gave 4 or 5 out of five when asked if group or pair discussion had helped them think more about the questions, and 68.3% gave 4 or 5 out of five when asked if discussing the questions in class helped them to write better. 
• Students in the interviews also commented on how the materials had helped them to perform better in the examination, as questions on the movies were included. (please refer to the video for details)
• However, some students in the interview also said that there had not been enough discussion and they would have liked more. One student also commented on the evaluation form that “The movie is too long. We do not have enough time for discussion.” Many teachers had found it difficult to get through the material in the time allocated and had cut down on the discussion part as a result.

• 62.8% of students gave 4 or 5 out of five when asked if the language help given had enabled them to write and talk about the movies better.
• Students in the interview mentioned some language items which had helped them with writing and speaking. (Please refer to the video for details).