> ----- 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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