ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I aim to show the benefits of using film clips and film language as multimodal resources in the foreign language classroom, especially for the teaching of pragmatic features of conversational interaction by taking the case of conversational routines as a paradigmatic example. I will start by reviewing some of the merits of using audiovisual material in language teaching and defending the authenticity of film language in a pedagogical context (sections 10.2 and 10.3). Then I will describe conversational routines in more detail in both spoken and film dialogue (section 10.4), before showing how to exploit film clips to teach these conversational features in the language classroom (section 10.5). In the latter part of section 10.5, I will show some practical examples of multimodal transcription and analysis of some clips from the Berkeley Language Center’s Library of Foreign Language Film Clips (LFLFC). Some conclusions will follow in section 10.6.
