English Language teaching through movies and tv shows: Can we watch a movie? …Can we watch a movie now? During mid-terms and into the half-way point of the course, something has happened. It’s a bit of a slippery slope when you start showing movies in class. After some dis

Fresh Off the Boat: A Success or Stereotyping? I have started to watch Fresh Off the Boat, which is about a Chinese American family that moves from Washington DC to Orlando, Florida. Fresh off the Boat is based on a memoir written by Eddie Huang, about his own childhood growing up in

Audio-Visual Resources for Bilingual Children Since my first trip to Costa Rica at the age of 15, I have always loved watching TV in Spanish. At first I enjoyed the challenge of understanding, and I think that now it’s more nostalgic than anything because I just love the way Spa