ABSTRACT
This chapter shows 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. It reviews some of the merits of using audiovisual material in language teaching and defending the authenticity of film language in a pedagogical context. The chapter describes conversational routines in more detail in both spoken and film dialogue, before showing how to exploit film clips to teach these conversational features in the language classroom. It shows some practical examples of multimodal transcription and analysis of some clips from the Berkeley Language Center's Library of Foreign Language Film Clips (LFLFC). The model proposed for using film clips in language instruction is a starting point that could be extended to include other interesting aspects of face-to-face interaction, such as oculesics and paralanguage.
