MHC Languages

Top 100 technology tools for learning, 2009.

Site of bilingual, animated folktales in a wide range of languages, with audio. From Defense Language Institute.

"GLOSS online language lessons are developed for independent learners to provide them with the learning/teaching tools for improving their foreign language skills. Reading and listening lessons are based on authentic materials (articles, TV reports, radio broadcasts, etc.) and consist of 4 to 6 activities. The motivating tasks are accompanied with in-depth feedback that provide learners with thorough explanations and tutoring just like an attentive and experienced teacher would do. With more than 5,600 instructional hours of materials, GLOSS is a valuable resource in maintaining and improving language ability of the learners."

Searchable database of lessons to review Arabic grammar. From Defense Language Institute. Some include audio/video.

Links to online resources from DLI.

"Do you want to join our design phase and make some games with us? Point your internets to http://arisgames.org/editor and set up an account. All the editing is done on-line and there is nothing to install on your computer. You can also set up your own server by downloading the ARIS server package from the developer page."

Free online survey of learning styles

"Foreign or second language (L2) learning strategies are specific actions, behaviors, steps, or techniques students use -- often consciously -- to improve their progress in apprehending, internalizing, and using the L2 (Oxford, 1990b). Strategies are the tools for active, self-directed involvement needed for developing L2 communicative ability (O'Malley & Chamot, 1990). Research has repeatedly shown that the conscious, tailored use of such strategies is related to language achievement and proficiency."

"It is designed to give you (and us) information about the way you tackle the tasks of learning a foreign language. This questionnaire is used all over the world. Unlike our other questionnaire, this one can give you information about your own learning techniques, once you have filled in all the questions and evaluate your answers."

Abstract
Course management systems, like any other technology, have an inherent purpose implied in their design, and therefore a built-in pedagogy. Although these pedagogies are based on instructivist principles, today's large CMSs have many features suitable for applying more constructivist pedagogies. Yet few faculty use these features, or even adapt their CMS very much, despite the several customization options. This is because most college instructors do not work or play much on the Web, and thus utilize Web-based systems primarily at their basic level. The defaults of the CMS therefore tend to determine the way Web-novice faculty teach online, encouraging methods based on posting of material and engendering usage that focuses on administrative tasks. A solution to this underutilization of the CMS is to focus on pedagogy for Web-novice faculty and allow a choice of CMS.

"EXMARaLDA steht für "Extensible Markup Language for Discourse Annotation". Es ist ein System von Konzepten, Datenformaten und Werkzeugen für die computergestützte Transkription und Annotation gesprochener Sprache, sowie für das Erstellen und Auswerten von Korpora gesprochener Sprache. EXMARaLDA wird im Teilprojekt "Computergestützte Erfassungs- und Analysemethoden multilingualer Daten" des Sonderforschungsbereichs "Mehrsprachigkeit" (SFB 538) der Universität Hamburg entwickelt. Alle Komponenten des EXMARaLDA-Systems sind auch für Nutzer außerhalb des SFB frei verfügbar."

BibMe is an automated bibliography generator that finds information about your sources and then formats the citations for you. BibMe can save you loads of time building your bibliography, time that is understandably valuable and would be better served working on your paper. Our website is your one-stop source for all your bibliography needs! Don't remember all the information for the source you cited? No problem! BibMe allows you to search from a database of millions of entries to find your source and Auto-fill in the information. Or, if you have the source in front of you, you can enter your entries in manually. With BibMe, you can register a free account, which allows you to save your bibliographies for future use. BibMe also offers resources to help you cite your work properly in the "Citation Guide" section

Tool to help with routing audio input on Mac OS X. Good for recording Skype calls, singing karaoke.

Tool to help with routing and recording audio on Mac OS. Good for recording Skype calls, doing karaoke, etc.

Explains why there are sometimes breaks due to vowel diacritics in Arabic. (need a font that uses zero-width characters for the diacritics).

"Boren Scholarships and Fellowships provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to add an important international and language component to their educations. We focus on geographic areas, languages, and fields of study that are critical to U.S. interests and underrepresented in study abroad."

"ANTWERP CALL 2010: Motivation and beyond
18-20 August 2010

The editor, associate editors and editorial board of the CALL Journal extend a cordial invitation to attend Antwerp CALL 2010, the XIVth International CALL Research Conference.

Keynote speakers Antonie Alm (University of Otago, New Zealand), Maarten Vansteenkiste (Ghent University, Belgium) and Ema Ushioda (Warwick University, United Kingdom) will provide an overview of literature on motivation, an introduction to Self-Determination Theory and a presentation of the L2 SELF model.

You are hereby invited to present your current CALL activities, highlighting aspects such as:

* the impact of ICT on motivation;
* designing for motivation;
* the role of ICT in the analysis of motivation;
* the relationship between motivation and proficiency level;
* learning styles;
* anxiety;
* technophobia/technophilia;
* self-models;
* teacher motivation."

"Learn Japanese the fun way!
* Learn hiragana and katakana in two weeks
* Improve your kana IME reading speed
* Review JLPT kanji and vocabulary in context
* Learn to correctly use particles and counters"
(Software)

"Does listening to something, perhaps once, perhaps more than once, perhaps over and over again, mean that it is learned in a way that is useful to the student and that they can retrieve and re-use in an appropriate context at a later date? It is a proposition that seems to conflict with the situated learning theories of researchers like Brown, Collins and Duguid (1989), which assert that learning always lies in the interactions between people rather than in the content itself or in the minds of the individual learners. The general premise that listening is often more engaging than the written word and that diction, intonation and inflection add meaning might be acceptable at face value, but as Hargis and Wilson (2005: 6) point out, 'there are currently no examples which clearly indicate proven foundational pedagogical uses and outcomes for podcasts.'. Though the technology is quite recent, it may tend to lead teachers towards outmoded, didactic approaches to delivery rather than the constructivist, collaborative activities recommended by more recent learning theorists."