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RESEARCH
I'm doing research on the effectiveness of technology on language
learning/culture. I'm looking for some really effective journals and
research activities, instruments, data that anyone has used that might have
been successful.
Thanks,
Kevin Murphy
Pioneer Valley Regional School District
Framingham State College
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Subject: Re: #7044.3 First Year Self-Instructional Courses (!)
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Read:
Self-instructional materials have an ambiguous reputation, to say the
least. Assuming that significant numbers of undergraduates would reach
threshold proficiencies purely through self-instruction is the sort of
accountant-hatched idea that should be squelched at birth.
That said, there are hybrid programs which involve the participation of
tutors and/or instructors in reduced roles which have been in place for
some time, including those of the Language Acquisition Institute at Pitt.
Our Language Online (mlonline.hss.cmu.edu) is a reduced-contact hybrid
which, however, requires instructor involvement similar (in time) to
standard classroom-based learning.
There's no free lunch...
-Chris
--On Thursday, February 20, 2003 5:27 PM -0500 LLTI-Editor
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>> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:01:15 -0500
>> From: "Mary Morrisard-Larkin" <[log in to unmask]>
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>> Subject: Re: #7044 First Year Self-Instructional Courses
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> Read - We just heard about a new 1st year program from Prentice-Hall
> called Gente. One of the ancillaries is a grammar review Cd-ROM that
> includes video of a teacher explaining grammar rules, etc. Mary M-L
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>> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 08:40:34 -0600
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>> Subject: First Year Self-Instructional Courses
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> WANTED: Quality, first year self-instructional materials for French,
> German, Spanish.
>
> At Wisconsin, like at many other places, we're faced with the prospect of
> some very difficult budget cuts. Everything's on the table as far as how
> to deal with these cuts. Some ideas work well from a budget point of
> view, but not from a curricular point of view. The opposite can also be
> true.
>
> One of the ideas being floated is to stop teaching courses that make up
> for lack of proficiency of incoming freshmen. Right now we require a
> certain proficiency to pass the language requirement, which often means a
> student with four years of high school Spanish, French, or German might
> have to take a course or two here to reach desired proficiency.
>
> Three ways to compensate for not teaching "remedial" beginning languages
> would be: (1) simply give credit for high school seat time, (2) require
> them to start another language, or (3) take self-instruction courses
> until they're proficient in the language they started in high school.
>
> All of this is a long background to the question:
>
> What do you folks know of out there that are good first year
> self-instructional courses in Spanish, French, or German? If you can
> send me off-line some leads, I'll follow up. ([log in to unmask])
>
> I know how tough it is to do self-instructional language, both from an
> instructional and learning point of view. But I've written my own first
> year self-instructional text (Spanish, many years ago, but out of print),
> so I know it can be done. Any leads will be gratefully appreciated.
>
Christopher M. Jones, PhD
Principal Lecturer in French / Director, Modern Language Resource Center
mail: Baker Hall 160, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
tel: 412-268-5065 fax: 412-268-1328 e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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