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| Contentid | 859 |
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| Title | Developing Materials for Less Commonly Taught Languages |
| Body | From: CARLA The LCTL Project at CARLA has always approached the support of LCTL teachers in ways that provide benefit to all LCTL instructors. The plethora of specific materials in a variety of languages available on the CARLA website is also designed to serve as models for all LCTL teachers. To further this goal of pan-LCTL support, LCTL Project Coordinator Dr. Louis Janus and Professor Bill Johnston from Indiana University are teaming up to write the LCTL Materials Development Resource Book that outlines principles and practical guidelines for material development that address the specific challenges that are typically faced by all LCTL instructors. The book will provide LCTL teachers an approach to taking "raw" materials (that run the gamut from out-of-date texts to authentic materials on the web) transforming them into curriculum materials that will energize learners. The book will feature an accompanying CD ROM that will show specific examples of the many resources available to LCTL teachers, models for activity development, and actual lesson plans in a variety of languages. The target date for the publication of this book and CD ROM is next fall. Some of the featured examples in the LCTL Materials Development Resource Book will come from previous work at the LCTL project. For examaple the LCTL Project was a pioneer in creating a system of virtual resources such as the Virtual Picture Album (VPA) and the Virtual Audio-Video Archives (VAVA). The VPA is an archive of digitized photographs and drawings, accompanied by useful descriptions and suggestions for ways LCTL teachers can incorporate these pictures into in-class and out-of-class activities. The VPA currently contains photographs of China, India, Ireland, Israel, Norway, Poland and Tunisia, with expansion to other countries in progress. See: http://carla.acad.umn.edu/VPA/vpa.html. Similarly, the VAVA is a collection of royalty-free audio and video files for teachers to use in their own creative exercises, along with a small number of sample exercises. The archives currently contain sounds in Arabic (Tunisia), Chinese (PRC), Chinese (Taiwan), Hebrew, Norwegian and Polish. See: http://carla.acad.umn.edu/VAVA/VAVA.html. Some of these resources have been incorporated into model exercises in a wide variety of LCTLs which are available from the LCTL Project's home page at: http://carla.acad.umn.edu/lctl/lctl.html |
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