Multimedia Japanese Learning

[Mark Nornes]

On Saturday, January 3, 2004, at 10:47  AM, Made in DNA wrote:

>> I was quite surprised
>> when I heard about a way to learn English with movies.

You  might be even more surprised to learn that this form of 
"multimedia" pedagogy goes back to at least the Talkies era. There are 
Japanese textbooks for English that are based on early sound films in 
the 1930s.

As early as the 1980s, there were also similar books based on 
subtitles, probably more for the widespread obsession with subtitles 
rather than any real pedagogical value.

Markus