ONLINE CONTENT FOR THE LANGUAGE CLASS: FINDING IT AND MAKING IT Christa Spreizer William McClure Eva Fernández Queens College & Graduate Center — CUNY Using Technology to Enhance Access and Excellence in CUNY: Realities, Plans, Visions John Jay College of Criminal Justice November 15, 2002

Overview teaching Languages Other Than English (LOTEs) using Internet technology teaching Languages Other Than English (LOTEs) using Internet technology and other electronic content delivery platforms and other electronic content delivery platforms theoretical and practical challenges theoretical and practical challenges good practices in language pedagogy good practices in language pedagogy content control, relevance and availability content control, relevance and availability

“ IT ” Internet-based instructional technology Internet-based instructional technology used in many disciplines, in both sciences & humanities used in many disciplines, in both sciences & humanities used in language instruction, too used in language instruction, too

Internet computer-mediated communication intelligent CALL CALL TV, film, video filmstrips language lab overhead projector radio phonograph video conferencing

Language Instruction Language Knowledge Language Knowledge GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCE: GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCE: phonology, syntax, semantics phonology, syntax, semantics COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE: pragmatics pragmatics LEXICAL STORE LEXICAL STORE Language Use (Performance) Language Use (Performance) ORAL v. WRITTEN mode ORAL v. WRITTEN mode PRODUCTION v. PERCEPTION PRODUCTION v. PERCEPTION

Chapitre 1, Exercice 1 A: Où est Sylvie? B: À la piscine. A: Et Philippe? B: Au bureau. A: Pauvre Philippe! A: Where’s Sylvia? B: At the pool. A: And Phil? B: At work. A: Poor Phil! écoutez répétez lisez écrivez listen repeat read write

“ The French Experience ” a BBC Education language series french/talk/greetings/index.shtml french/experience/index.shtml

GRAMMATICAL COMPETENCE vocabulary building tools vocabulary building tools grammar practice exercises & tutorials grammar practice exercises & tutorials pronunciation practice exercises & tutorials pronunciation practice exercises & tutorials listening comprehension exercises listening comprehension exercises orthography tutorials orthography tutorials etc. “ IT ” language learning tools

COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE Internet radio Internet radio e-newspapers & e-magazines e-newspapers & e-magazines museum websites museum websites subway information websites subway information websites etc., etc.etc. computer-mediated communication computer-mediated communication “ IT ” realia; “ IT ” collaborative forums

“ IT ” — Master or Slave? resemblance to the days of the language lab… resemblance to the days of the language lab… does IT drive the curriculum, determine the pedagogy? does IT drive the curriculum, determine the pedagogy?

The Language Lab

Rafael Salaberry (MLJ, 2001) “Is increased technological sophistication correlated to increased effectiveness to achieve pedagogical objectives?” “What technical attributes specific to the new technologies can be profitably exploited for pedagogical purposes?” (And how successful is this endeavor?) (And how viable is it, given our human and material resources?)

Control, Relevance, Availability William McClure William McClure Queens College, Japanese Queens College, Japanese content for beginner and intermediate students content for beginner and intermediate students Christa Spreizer Christa Spreizer Queens College, German Queens College, German advanced content advanced content

William McClure Japanese, Queens College

Structure of the Japanese Program Three levels of Japanese Three levels of Japanese Introductory (3 sections, 4 days a week) Introductory (3 sections, 4 days a week) Intermediate (1 section, 2 days a week) Intermediate (1 section, 2 days a week) Advanced (1 section, 1 day a week) Advanced (1 section, 1 day a week) Division of labor Division of labor one professor (overall coordinator, English lecturer) one professor (overall coordinator, English lecturer) two or three native-speaking adjuncts two or three native-speaking adjuncts

Electronic Resources and Good Practices A supplement to class A supplement to class Relevance Relevance Required or optional? Required or optional?

Japanese Homepage

Japanese 101 schedule Information about the Course 101page/japanese10 1.html

Academic Content learning to read hiragana learning to read hiragana

learning to read hiragana learning to write Chinese characters learning to write Chinese characters Academic Content

learning to read hiragana learning to write Chinese characters learning vocabulary learning vocabulary Academic Content

Communication addresses, office hours, etc. addresses, office hours, etc. discussion board discussion board

Motivation student performances student performances

Motivation student websites student websites

Coolness ;-)

Christa Spreizer German, Queens College

THANKS!  Please address questions and comments to: Christa Spreizer William McClure Eva Fernández