Liou's paper is about using movies as a teaching aid to stimulate students attention and interest in learning English. It calls interactive videodisc (IVD). The feature of this coursewave is that beside watching movies, students can click the icons on the screen to get information such as the Help icon. After students ask for help, there are eight levels of help which avaliable for them such as Word Search and turn on or off the English/Chinese script.
By using films, IVD also provides excellent work in target language (TL) input, linguistic features such as stress and intonation. It also provides the culture playground and it allows students to understand the language speaking as well.
Frankly I am quite happy with IVD because I am definitely sure students can motivate by it. It is true to say that movies can give students certain extend of different culture. Students can also learn from the tone from the movies' characters. However, there are many slangs in a normal speech that might be difficult for students to understand even though there are Chinese script in the movie.
Also, if the computer system is not yet mature in a school, IVD might not be able to work smoothly and it might stuck during the lesson. Therefore, teachers need to make sure the computer systems at schools are good enough to use IVD before decide using it.
