TEAL Certificate at UIUC Chilin Shih Misumi Sadler University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Altgeld Hall, UIUC Image: Kalev Leetaru

What is TEAL Teaching of East Asian Languages –A language teaching concentration within the BA in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. –Provides the necessary training leading to certifying students to become teachers of East Asian Languages in the public schools. –This program will lead to Illinois State Board of Education Certification.

Requirements EALC Major requirements: Language –Advanced Level Disciplinary and period –East Asian Civilization –History –Pre-1800 course –Literature 4 Advanced courses EALC Colloquium TEAL Admission: –GPA of 2.5 and above –Pass Illinois Certification Testing System test of Basic Skills TEAL requirements: –Professional education courses –Teaching area specialization sequence with apprentice teaching –Pass Illinois Certification Testing System Test

Programs Languages: –Chinese –Japanese Specially designed courses focusing on K- 12 language teaching: –Chinese 477: Chinese Orthography and Grammar for Language Teaching –Japanese 460: Japanese as a 2 nd Language

Long-term Support Teacher training is only half of the task. Need coordinated support to build age-appropriate teaching materials. Collecting L2 production data to understand L2 error patterns. Research and databases for efficient language proficiency testing Educate students to utilize available technologies and resources.

Support Systems

Scope of Work

On-going Projects at UIUC Apply language technologies to build the infrastructure supporting second language teaching. –Collecting audio/video data of L2 production –Investigating L2 error patterns –Evaluating L2 fluency –Incorporating machine learning methods to build computerized tutors. –Building natural language resources

Language Technologies Multi-disciplinary effort Enable fast construction of teaching and testing materials –On-line resources: dictionary, text, images, videos –Text analysis tools: Word segmentation, concordance –Text generation –Picture generation –Test generation –Speech generation and recognition

Examples Adaptive training and testing Picture generation

Adaptive Training Prosody Tutor –A computer program that teaches Chinese tones –Adapting training/testing materials to suit student level –Functions as a personalized tutor –8000 speech files in the data bank –8.2% improvement in 2 ½ hours

Picture Generation Wordseye: A text-to-scene conversion program. –Bob Coyne at Columbia University –Richard Sproat at UIUC.