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Paper on use of “Speech recognition Tools for Oral Proficiency” training has appeared in this week’s FLTMag.com
2015/04/06
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- Since I have been asked to advertise this:
- These Speech recognition tools, while an invaluable partial evaluation automation or AI tool, come free with MS-Windows (7 Enterprise/Ultimate, 8 all distributions) – crucial for often resource-strapped language learning environments.
- The tools do not come with pre-built exercises – a blessing in disguise since this makes them easier to integrate them with your existing textbook-based syllabus. I provide some ideas how you can easily derive speech recognition exercises from your syllabus/textbooks.
- I recommend having a look at the entire new issue of FLTMag, the magazine on technology integration in the world language classroom, which
- examines other software that supports second language learning with video conferencing, support for writing and vocabulary learning (on tablets versus print materials) ,
- reviews a book on “Ideas for integrating technology in the classroom”
- and advertises upcoming conferences. Hope to see you there.
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Find open access research on teaching modern foreign languages with Yazik Open
2012/03/28
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An inititative of an expert from the UK LLAS, Yazik Open has the potential to become a welcome addition to our SLA research search options, especially if you do not want to run into a pay wall after finding an interesting abstract.
The currently sole contributor seems to be admin – same problem I had when I started a language learning resource links database in 1998, when will this change?
The keyword list looks somewhat rudimentary – when I worked with LLAS on a language learning resource metadata schema, complexity led to a grinding halt.
So the need to bring some of the advances in technologically fostered collaboration and information exchange to domain-specific fields like SLA certainly remains to be felt here.
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