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2. Challenges in Less Commonly Taught Languages Classroom. Limited exposure to the target language outside of the classroom presents difficulties - phonological development Phonological adjustment is said to be difficult after the critical/sensitive periodautomatic oral production of non salie
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1. 1 TBLT and Less Commonly Taught Languages Curriculum Development John MacDermott Director, Instructional Technology Junko Takada SLA Lexicology Specialist Project Research Assistant Albert Matthews Senior Support Specialist for Instructional Technology Edward Dixon Coordinator for Technology in Foreign Languages University of Pennsylvania, US Facing challenges in FL programs: phonological development automatic oral production of non salient forms ********************************************** Development of Curriculum Incorporating Web Based Oral Tasks ********************************************** Sponsored by: The Ivy League Language Learning & Teaching Consortium Junko Hondo University of Pennsylvania, US / Lancaster University, UK hondoj@sas.upenn.edu International Conference on Task-Based Language Teaching September, 2005 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven