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Links to computer assisted language learning tools

2012/02/03 plagwitz Leave a comment

2012/01/30 plagwitz Leave a comment

Here you can haz dictionaries. And if you use them in the Language Resource Center, you even have the chance to run into someone who can show you how to use them well.
http://linguistlist.org/sp/GetWRListings.cfm?WRAbbrev=Dict
http://lexicall.widged.com/repository/listing.php?category=words

2012/01/24 plagwitz Leave a comment

One of the Sanako Student player’s useful features geared toward language learning activities, is that it can save the teacher the time and effort for inserting pauses into their audio recordings, so that students can record responses into them.
1. Meaning the teacher can just press the red speak button and record through the entire file in one sitting.
2. The teacher can still help students finding their way around the file, especially where to insert their own audio recording responses, by adding aural cues.
  1. This can be done in minimal time: I once saw a teacher use a bicycle bell – and why not, if it saves time.
  2. A spoken instruction “Respond”/”Answer in 10 seconds” is not more difficult to spot (unless only the voice graph is being browsed) and might be even better.
  3. If you have spare time:
    1. You can post-edit the file with audacity, generating and inserting sinus tones.
    2. You can use the Sanako player to insert bookmarks instead of cues.
As long as students have been instructed to how to use voice insert recording mode with the Sanako student recorder.
1. This is for self access of students to teacher recorded files – be it during class or homework.
2. If you want to record students under exam conditions, a similar insert recording feature is available within the activity: Model imitation, but not with a pre-recorded file, only when the live teacher is the program source students listen to for cues.

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