> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Richard Laden
> To: LLTI-Editor
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 9:56 AM
> Subject: Re: #9050.1 (!) CALL-supported courses on simultaneous  
> interpretation? (semi-ADVTSG)
>
> Those interested in this topic might like to hear how our LangLab  
> PASSPORT software supports simultaneous interpretation as well as  
> consecutive interpretation. If a clip has no recording pauses,  
> LangLab will let the student click on Record--an instructor can also  
> control the Client module for all and initiate recording--and record  
> a simultaneous interpretation or, for accent improvement, a  
> "ghosted" version in the same language as the speaker. The recording  
> lasts a bit longer than the original clip, to give the student time  
> to finish after hearing the last words of the clip. It is also easy  
> to introduce moments of silence that are not true recording pauses  
> into the clip, to give the student interpreter some time to think,  
> as might occur in a real situation when the speaker knows that a  
> speech is being interpreted and pauses briefly from time to time. A  
> class might work from longer  pauses to shorter ones, and then to  
> none at all. If the instructor desires, the recorded interpretation  
> can also be of a video clip or audio clip playing in a media player,  
> with the possibility of using the speed controls built into a player  
> such as WMP. For consecutive interpretation, of course, one can  
> quickly insert recording pauses of any desired length at any point  
> in a clip; there could be several versions of a clip in a series of  
> lesson items, and the student could start with a highly-segmented  
> easier version and then do less-segmented versions. Use of  
> inexpensive complementary classroom-management software would allow  
> actual views of students' screens, for monitoring of note-taking, if  
> desired.
>
>      Regards,
>
>      Richard Laden
> ____________________
> Dr. Richard A. Laden
> Director, E-LangLab, LLC
> Berkeley, California
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