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Do Not Watch This Film by Amnesty International

An Ad in Teaching Negation in English

Francesca Sannazzaro    

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abstract

This essay has a specific purpose: to prove the functionality of the web in order to find authentic, multimedia and hypermedia materials to teach foreign languages. To this purpose, a detailed analysis of the video Do Not Watch This Filmby Amnesty International will be reported and also of the related website www.ifoundtheletter.org. Its strategic and persuasive use of negation is examined, as well as the multiple current issues emerging from these materials and the potential educational activities to be carried out in a class.

Published
Nov. 1, 2013
Language
IT

permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/2280-6792/77p

Copyright: © 2013 Francesca Sannazzaro. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.