Evaluating English Teaching Materials to Identify Factors That Maximize Deaf Students’ Success Kathleen Eilers-crandall, Ph.D. Seminar C – Prague International Teacher-Training Seminar 24 August 2004, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Introduction In this seminar participants will practice selecting and preparing English teaching materials with elements to maximize Deaf students’ prospects for successful foreign language learning.

Three Active Learning Strategies Inquiring Scaffolding Collaborating and sharing

Inquiry with Film and Video East of Krakatoa Before you watch – Discussion ofbefore.htm ofbefore.htm Before you watch - Vocabulary ingfirevocab.htm ingfirevocab.htm After you watch - Discussion eastof3.htm eastof3.htm

Scaffold with Grammar for Reading Reading for comprehension of before vs. after grammar ( le12/Grammar&Comprehension- Article12.htm) le12/Grammar&Comprehension- Article12.htm Reading for basic question forms ( le01/Grammar&Comprehension-Article1.htm) le01/Grammar&Comprehension-Article1.htm

Collaboration and Sharing Movie clip (Pollock, 2001, Chapter 18)Chapter 18 Watching and learning vocabulary ( home.htm) - Assignment 7: /Pollock/PollockEssaysW.htm) home.htm /Pollock/PollockEssaysW.htm Preparing notes as a group to write paragraphs in a small group or individually (Example notes: /Pollock/PollockEssaysW.htm) /Pollock/PollockEssaysW.htm

Participant Practice Inquiring Vocabulary Reading Writing Scaffolding Vocabulary Reading Writing Collaboration and sharing Vocabulary Reading Writing

Participant Discussion Inquiring Vocabulary Reading Writing Scaffolding Vocabulary Reading Writing Collaboration and sharing Vocabulary Reading Writing

Selected Czech films with English captioning Autumn Spring (Babí léto) (2003) director: Vladimír Michálek (Plot: Through out his whole life Fanda has lived for the moment, and in his old age when his wife files for divorce spurred on by their son's desire to house one of his ex-wives and his/her children in his parents' home, he succumbs to his wife's desire and reforms, but his wife is unhappy because he is no longer the man she loves, and so she visits his hospitalized friend to learn how to make him happy once more) Dark Blue World (2001) director: Jan Sverak (Plot: Imprisoned by their post WWII communist rulers, men tell their story of danger and a romance that comes between friends while flying for the British against the Nazis.) Heaven's Tears (1994) director: Lloyd A. Simandl (Plot: Official and Jewish persons fall in love at start of WW II.) Kolya (1996) director: Jan Sverak (Plot: 55 year-old Czech cellist learns about love from a 5 year-old boy who is left with him after a "fake" marriage to his Russian mother; film takes place during the last days of Communist rule in the Czech Republic; he has to deal with interrogation by Russian agents and the delicate needs of the boy.)

Selected References Roby, Warren B. (1999) What’s in a gloss? Language Learning & Technology. Vol. 2, No. 2, January 1999, pp Al-Seghayer, Khalid (2001) The effect of multimedia annotation modes on L2 vocabulary acquisition: a comparative study. Language Learning & Technology. Vol. 5, No. 1, January 2001, pp

Presenter – Contact Information Kathleen Eilers-crandall, Ph.D. Department of English Lyndon Baines Johnson Building 2264 National Technical Institute for the Deaf Rochester Institute of Technology Rochester, New York USA Phone: Fax: Web: