Strategic Teaching of Movies as Self-Study Materials for Listening Comprehension

Abstract: This lecture aims to explore how movies can be effectively integrated into Mandarin learners’ self-study of listening comprehension, with a focus on practical, strategy-based teaching methods. Through guidance on film selection, key scene analysis, and the design of self-study worksheets, participants will learn how to support learners in conducting targeted listening practice. The lecture will also present real-world teaching cases to demonstrate how language input and cultural context can be combined to enhance learners’ motivation and language proficiency. It is suitable for language instructors, teaching material developers, and learners interested in strengthening their self-study strategies .

Language:

• Presentation: Chinese
• Slides: English & Chinese
• Q&A: Bilingual (English / Chinese)

Speaker’s Bio: Dr. Chin-Chin Tseng is a full professor in the Department of Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University. She is currently serving as the Taiwan Chair and visiting researcher at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Dr. Tseng earned her B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Taiwan University in 1988, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
A linguist, phonetician, and teacher educator, her early research focused on phonetics, interlanguage, and second language acquisition. More recently, her work has expanded to include Chinese dialect teacher education, AI-assisted teaching strategies, and the development of an interlanguage prosodic database for Chinese language research in Europe.