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Claude Almansi

NPR, Harris Corporation and Towson University Launch Global Effort To Make Radio Access... - 0 views

www.harris.com/view_pressrelease.asp

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  • Claude Almansi on 06 Dec 08
     
    NPR, Harris Corporation and Towson University today announced a new initiative to make radio more accessible to the hundreds of millions of hearing and visually impaired people around the world.
Belinda Flint

Free Text-to-Voice translation demo by SitePal - Virtual talking people - 0 views

www.oddcast.com/...tts_tran_example.php

pronunciation help language talking text free translation people pronunciation languages

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  • eflclassroom 2.0 on 23 Oct 08
     
    Translates text of multiple languages and then speaks it! Many voices to use also....
  • Belinda Flint on 11 Nov 09
     
    Wow - text to voice translation! Will be excellent for students needing help with pronunciation. Many language options.
Rob McTaggart

Livemocha: Learn Languages Online - English, Spanish, French, Italian, Mandar... - 0 views

www.livemocha.com

chinese community education french language languages learning livemocha mandarin networking social spanish

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      Rob McTaggart on 08 Jun 08
       
      The community is the best thing about LIvemocha. People are always willing to help you improve. You can submit recordings of yourself speaking or writing submissions and other people will comment on them. You can also talk live with text, audio or webcam and there are tools to help with translation.
International School of Central Switzerland

Next Vista for Learning - 8 views

www.nextvista.org

video resources education educational_videos

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  • International School of Central Switzerland on 04 Jan 10
     
    An online library of free videos for learners everywhere - our goal is to gather a set of resources to help you learn just about anything, meet people who make a difference in their communities, and even discover new parts of the world. Next Vista for Learning wants to post your educational videos online, too. Everyone has an insight to share and yours may be just what some student or teacher somewhere needs!
Belinda Flint

Phonetic Chart of IPA symbols - 8 views

www.stuff.co.uk/calcul_nd.htm

Lang 'lang resources' IPA interactive 'interactive ipa' 'ipa chart'

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  • Belinda Flint on 09 Feb 11
     
    This web page is for people interested in learning the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols. This is a useful skill for learners and teachers of English who may want to check the pronunciation of a word in a dictionary. Use the phonetic chart to learn the sounds of English. Then do a quiz to see how well you have learnt them.
Lauren Rosen

Voxli - 9 views

voxli.com

chat voice audio web2.0 voicechat

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  • Lauren Rosen on 27 Jan 11
     
    Voice Chat for Everyone. Very basic. No sign in required. Can get up to 200 people in a single voice chat. Doesn't seem to offer a way to record the chat from what I have seen.
Lauren Rosen

CALLEJEROS LITERARIOS - 3 views

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maps google BER literarios

shared by Lauren Rosen on 07 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Lauren Rosen on 07 Jun 11
     
    Collaborative project whereby various elementary and HS worked together. For each of their cities they found the streets named after famous people. Students then learned about the famous person, presented on who they are and marked the street location named after them on a google map
Martin Burrett

Tonguetide - 6 views

www.tonguetide.com

mfl language partner social networking VoIP chat video chat

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  • Martin Burrett on 11 Aug 11
     
    Tonguetide is a social networking site for people looking to improve their foreign language skills. Find a language partner or use the site's learning tools to help you. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Languages,+Culture+&+International+Projects
Pamela Arraras

Foreign Language Teaching Wiki - Culture - 1 views

flteaching.wikispaces.com/Culture

virtualbackpacking culture intercultural

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  • The main exposure students had to the culture of the target language was through controlled interaction with native speakers in the classroom.
  • Language & culture are more naturally integrated in this approach. Culture instruction is connected to grammar instruction. Its main goal is to teach students how to use the target language when communicating in a cultural context
  • the following are other common approaches to teaching culture: (from Omaggio) The Frankenstein Approach: A taco from here, a flamenco dancer from there, a gaucho from here, a bullfight from there. The 4-F Approach: Folk dances, festivals, fairs and food. The Tour Guide Approach: The identification of monuments, rivers and cities. The "By-the-Way" Approach: Sporadic lectures or bits of behavior selected indiscriminately to emphasize sharp differences.
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  • focusing a little more on similarities, instead of the differences, between cultures
  • Latorre believes that focusing on differences instead of on the similarities contributes to people misunderstanding other cultures, often thinking that the foreign cultures are "exotic," perhaps more exotic than they actually are. What Latorre suggests that any teacher of any foreign language should do is focus on the “true differential, the language [itself], rather than enlarging beyond proportion attitudes and activities which are either regional, outdated, or downright non-existent” (672).
  • one of the most important factors for success in learning a foreign language is the need for students to get involved in the learning process. The use of materials based on internet technologies offers many innovative ways of getting students involved in the process of learning a language. Students can get to know the target culture by means of interacting directly with native speakers via on-line communication, with mail exchanges or chatrooms.
  • From her point of view, it is crucial that the students can learn not only the language but also the diversity of the target culture. That is why, according to her, internet resources, such as newspapers and magazines, have a great importance, since they provide students with authentic and current information that can help them understand the target culture. Reading on-line newspapers makes students aware of current social phenomena.
  • According to Lee, recent studies have proved that internet resources can help students improve their language skills in a similar way to full immersion or study abroad, although are based basically on written communication. Besides, this use of on-line resources are more beneficial to students at the advanced level because they require a high level of language proficiency to read, comprehend, and respond to cultural readings, for example, newspapers.
  • The most important part of Stern's research involves his 3-level framework of foreign culture pedagogy: teaching social sciences, applying theory/research, and their practical applications in the classroom. In the 1990s, Stern's cultural/communication mix evolved from describing sociocultural contexts of second language/foreign language to contexts of competence in second culture acquisition (not just language acquisition). This is the first time that cultural pedagogy and social sciences had been paired.
  • In H.H. Stern's breakthrough 1983 study "Fundamental concepts of language Teaching," there are concepts of day-to-day culture and customs that should be used in the classroom. Stern uses a four component model including a 'cultural syllabus' for culture teaching.
  • Foreign language (FL) teachers should make culture more of a central role in the class FL teachers should throw out teaching culture in terms of isolated facts FL teachers should have an awareness of the past on the present within any culture without focusing too much on the past FL teachers should be aware of cognitive and affective influences on the students FL teachers should engage students as active participants FL teachers should teach culture in such a way that students can be cross-cultural here and abroad Given that the teacher’s assumptions about how language and lang learning affect how he or she teaches lang and culture, the approach should aim for communicative competence (that is, real communication)
  • Tang discussed the use of performance-based theory developed by Walker (2000) who suggests that culture could be better taught if done through simulated social interactions in the classroom, for example hosting a guest or accepting a gift. This serves to create a “default memory” within the student's mind that will help him perform in the target culture without drawing conclusions or using as a reference his own base culture which could lead to misunderstandings.
  • Tang also discourages the pure instruction of behavioral culture in the classroom and says that to perform effectively in a target culture one must not only be able to master it linguistically, be familiar with its artifacts, norms and rituals but also with the meaning system, or the hidden significance underlying these. This is why she believes that Walker's performance-based theory can only work properly if the true meaning system underlying the simulated situations and interations created in the classroom are internalized by the students.
  • the Three P's, into three separate categories: cultural perspectives, cultural products, and cultural practices. Cultural perspectives are the values, beliefs, attitudes, and assumptions shared within a culture. Cultural products are things such as literature, music, art, or even utensils such as chopsticks; tangible items that are linked to a certain culture. Cultural practices are the acceptable behavioral patterns, forms of discourse, and rites of passage within a specific culture.
  • the goals are that students "demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied," which means that we should encourage the students to understand why other cultures do what they do and what the members of that culture think about the reasons behind what they do. In addition, the students should come to an understanding of "the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied." This means that we should enlighten the students on what members of other cultures do and what these peoples' own opinions are about what they do. Moreover, culture should be starting point for all classroom education. In keeping with the 5 C's, culture is used to make comparisons and connections about communities and in doing so students can have meaningful communication within those communties.
  • According to Omaggio: Culture is complex and elusive and is difficult to include in linear instructional formats. Culture requires time that many teachers feel that do not have. Teachers avoid culture because of their own perceived lack of knowledge. Culture often requires both teacher and learner to move beyond their level of comfort when confronted with deeper, sometimes controversial issues. When teaching languages that are spoken in many different countries, e.g., Spanish, where are the cultural boundaries? Balancing Big C with Little C.
  • Strategies, techniques, and tools for teaching culture in the classroom
Mukesh Kumar

Funniest Poster that can makes you Win - 0 views

www.retardforum.com/showthread.php

"Retard Forum" Videos" News" "Funny pictures" stories"

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  • Mukesh Kumar on 28 Jul 09
     
    The contest which is specially designed for the people who wants to be entertained and make others laugh. All you have to do is to post funny pictures, funny videos, funny stories and funny News.
Isabelle Jones

"Esperanto estas…" (parto 2): lingvo kun multaj trajtoj - 0 views

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  • Isabelle Jones on 11 Jun 09
     
    Interesting idea to develop linguistic awareness. Still not convinced it works as an authentic way to comunicate with other people....
Claude Almansi

Allow Everyone Access to E-books - Reading Rights Coalition's petition - 0 views

www.thepetitionsite.com/...We-Want-To-Read

Kindle2 amazon authors' guild reading rights readingrights petition

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  • Claude Almansi on 04 Apr 09
     
    Amazon has announced that it will give authors and publishers the ability to disable the text-to-speech function on any or all of their e-books available for the Kindle 2. The Reading Rights Coalition, which represents people who cannot read print, will protest the threatened removal of the text-to-speech function from e-books for the Amazon Kindle 2 outside the Authors Guild headquarters in New York City at 31 East 32nd
Belinda Flint

twitter4teachers / Foreign Language Teachers - 12 views

twitter4teachers.pbworks.com/Foreign-Language-Teachers

Language teachers list List of language teachers on twitter twitter

shared by Belinda Flint on 22 Oct 09 - Cached
  • Belinda Flint on 22 Oct 09
     
    Here is a huge list of language teachers on twitter. Sort through and find people teaching the same language as you!
Sani Girona

Happy Birthday, M1! - 1 views

www.listen-to-english.com/index.php

diigo ESL podcast_en audio podcasting motorway network

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  • Sani Girona on 06 Nov 09
     
    podcast website for people learning English
Claude Almansi

Official Google Blog: Automatic captions in YouTube - Ken Harrenstien, Nov. 19, 09 - 7 views

googleblog.blogspot.com/...matic-captions-in-youtube.html

google youtube captions Harrenstein accessibility video TTS

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  • Claude Almansi on 19 Nov 09
     
    "However, like everything YouTube does, captions face a tremendous challenge of scale. Every minute, 20 hours of video are uploaded. How can we expect every video owner to spend the time and effort necessary to add captions to their videos? Even with all of the captioning support already available on YouTube, the majority of user-generated video content online is still inaccessible to people like me. To help address this challenge, we've combined Google's automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology with the YouTube caption system to offer automatic captions, or auto-caps for short. Auto-caps use the same voice recognition algorithms in Google Voice to automatically generate captions for video. The captions will not always be perfect (check out the video below for an amusing example), but even when they're off, they can still be helpful-and the technology will continue to improve with time. In addition to automatic captions, we're also launching automatic caption timing, or auto-timing, to make it significantly easier to create captions manually. With auto-timing, you no longer need to have special expertise to create your own captions in YouTube. All you need to do is create a simple text file with all the words in the video and we'll use Google's ASR technology to figure out when the words are spoken and create captions for your video. This should significantly lower the barriers for video owners who want to add captions, but who don't have the time or resources to create professional caption tracks."
Martin Burrett

Bilingual children learn other languages easier - 1 views

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languages mfl bilingual research

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  • Martin Burrett on 02 Oct 17
     
    "It is often claimed that people who are bilingual are better than monolinguals at learning languages. Now, the first study to examine bilingual and monolingual brains as they learn an additional language offers new evidence that supports this hypothesis, researchers say. The study, conducted at Georgetown University Medical Center and published in the journal Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, suggests that early bilingualism helps with learning languages later in life."
Martin Burrett

Improving Writing - 7 views

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writing UKEdChat

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  • Martin Burrett on 12 Nov 18
     
    "Writing is vital to most examples of learning. It is how civilisation conveys information from generation to generation, it is how parents often communicate their needs and fears for their children as notes to the teacher, and it is how little Johnny/Jane tells you about what their cat and/or dog did at the weekend. Some people love writing, while others struggle with it, but everyone has to write to some degree in their daily lives, and all of this stems from their experiences in the classroom."
Kathleen Kearney

Visuals for teaching a Foreign Language - 19 views

digital.library.pitt.edu/...visuals

Teaching

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  • Heide DeMorris on 15 May 13
     
    Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction is a free gallery of images hosted by the University of Pittsburgh's Digital Research Library. The gallery contains nearly 500 drawings of people conversing, scenes in houses and buildings, and objects commonly found in houses. You'll also find drawings scenes in cities, in stores, and in nature. The visuals are all drawn cartoon style without any text or speech bubbles. Applications for Education If you're looking for some visual prompts to use in your language lessons, take a look at the gallery at Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction. You can search the gallery by keyword or simple browse through the collection. 
Lauren Rosen

Can Foreign Language Immersion Be Taught Effectively Online? | MindShift - 5 views

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online learning

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    • Lauren Rosen
      Lauren Rosen on 23 Apr 15
       
      Primarily interpretive activities
  • there’s really no substitute for engaging in real conversations with other people, which is one of the reasons she is fond of the districts that are using the Middlebury curriculum in blended learning classrooms
    • Lauren Rosen
      Lauren Rosen on 23 Apr 15
       
      Presentational speaking
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  • record themselves and submit audio
  • blended model
  • language teacher is present one day a week, the focus is on speaking with one another and group work.
  • Lauren Rosen on 23 Apr 15
     
    Middlebury's program is mostly interpretive with some presentational aspects so best used in a blended environment where learners have the opportunity to practice spontaneous speaking in live situations. That said, if this is the only option it seems much better than the majority of what's out there for independent language study, in my opinion.
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