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>From: "Eva Dam Jensen" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Sv: #6354 Spanish VideoLinguist
>Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 21:18:44 +0100
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To Judith (with a comment to David Herren below),
Dear Judith
I thought you'd never ask:
This week we finally finished (and sent off to a possible publisher)
a listening course for advanced learners of Spanish.
2 CD-Roms, Mac and Windows,
Built on 4 episodes of a soap opera on video, produced by us.
The linguistic input is NS/NS dialogue, at natural speed,
improvised within a narrative framework.
Each episode consists of 3 didactic steps:
Global decoding (top down, focus on meaning and context)
. preliminary questions to the content
. one vision
. answering af questions one-by-one with multiple choice
. wrong answer: compulsory viewing of relevant clips from the scene
. right answer: optional viewing
Detailed decoding (bottom up
. A Viewing of dialogue at fast speed - minimal pause between turns
. B Possibility of slower repetition of the last turn (with every language detail conserved)
. C Possibility of still slower repetition -"- -"-
. D Possibility of C + subtitles in Spanish -"- -"-
. E Obligatory viewing of the A-version of the actual turn [to recognize the problem source]
Total Decoding:
One last viewing without pauses, to recognize the total communicative act including the relationship between sound and situational context.
At all levels the user has access to a glossary.
There are more details to be found about the project in proceedings from
Calico, New Mexico 1996, about the empirical study conducted with the material,
Calico, New Mexico 1996, about the acquisition theory behind the study and
Calico, West Point, New York 1997, about "Enredos Interactivos" (the CD-Roms)
The study rendered evidence of significant improvement on the parameters:
- Comprehension skill
- acquisition of phonological decoding strategies
- acquisition of language form
after only 8 half hours of listening to the material.
Only recently we submitted a report on the study to an american review.
To David Herren:
Dear David, I wrote this reply thinking of your question as well.
A nice point for your collegues:
most IT-programs aspire to do the job just as well as the teacher in person
cf. the "no significant difference" effect.
The program described above represents
the only possible way a teacher in a classroom
can teach real spoken language:
That is only possible if you have real spontaneous
native dialogue on a tape that you can play and pause at will.
Behind this project lies the commonly accepted view
that language acquisition requires noticing of the linguistic
form within its context (Schmidt 1990).
Richard Schmidt: The Role of Consciousness in Second Language
Learning. Applied Linguistics 11: 129-158.
Best regards to everyone
Eva Dam Jensen and Thora Vinther
>
> Hello all,
>
> Our Spanish Department uses a CD-ROM program called "VideoLinguist"
> which was produced by a company called Cubic Media in 1993. It
> includes video and audio clips, options to slow or repeat the speech,
> view the script and/or translation, and record student responses.
>
> We are attempting to upgrade our Macs to OS9, but discovered that
> this CD will not run under System 9.
>
> Does anyone have a recommendation for a similar program that will run
> on Mac OS9 and/or Windows 2000? I'm looking into Transparent
> Language, and have looked through the CALICO review.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Judi
> --
> Judi Franz, Director
> Humanities Instructional Resource Center
> University of California, Irvine
> 269 Humanities Hall ZOT: 3775
> (949) 824-6344 / (949) 824-4500 direct
> http://www.humanities.uci.edu/hirc
>
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