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Kathleen E. Dillon, PhD Associate Director kedillon@ucdavis uccllt.ucdavis/

Kathleen E. Dillon, PhD Associate Director kedillon@ucdavis.edu http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu/. What is the Consortium?. 9 campuses 83 languages most of them at Berkeley and LA. What is the Consortium’s charge?. “a national model for language delivery”

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Kathleen E. Dillon, PhD Associate Director kedillon@ucdavis uccllt.ucdavis/

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  1. Kathleen E. Dillon, PhD Associate Director kedillon@ucdavis.edu http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu/

  2. What is the Consortium? 9 campuses 83 languages most of them at Berkeley and LA

  3. What is the Consortium’s charge? “a national model for language delivery” “Equal access to critical resources, i.e. “LCTLs”

  4. So, what’s the problem?

  5. The Schwarzenegger Model There are more problems than solutions

  6. UC = • Deans • Department Chairs • Untenured lecturers • Committee on Courses

  7. Pedagogy of the Blackboard Age

  8. Face-to-Face Instruction “is theoptimummode for language delivery”

  9. especially if oral proficiency = the principal goal of instruction

  10. FLAS Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships $$$$$

  11. Consortium makes efforts • find the funds • create the course • approve the course • pilot-test and evaluate the course • cross-list across the system • credit to the instructor of record on host campus • $$ remains on the recipient campus

  12. Progress To Date: A UC Consortium Statement on Teaching Languages at a Distance in the UC System (http://uccllt.ucdavis.edu/Distance_Learning1.pdf)

  13. A distance course can accommodate a spectrum of • learning styles • personalities • goals

  14. A hybrid model may be necessary

  15. Limited direct contact between instructors and students via: • Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) • Teleconferencing • Roving TAs • Native speaker mentors on each campus

  16. The strength of the distance-learning format resides in increasing access, especially to LCTLs.

  17. Web vs. Face-to-Face Could use of the web for oral production replicate or replace teacher-mediated classroom instruction?

  18. WIMBA Voice Technology http://www.horizonwimba.com/ Synchronous Asynchronous

  19. Preliminary results: • many of the communicative activities can be done on the web • students seem to produce more language • students become more confident speaking • students who have difficulty with oral production do better

  20. Videoconferenced Language Courses • Czech • Danish • Filipino • Finnish • Hindi

  21. Web courses • Spanish Without Walls (FIPSE) • Arabic Without Walls (FIPSE) • Punjabi (Title VI, International Research and Studies)

  22. On the agenda • Summer training workshop for distance instructors • Fundraising for additional web courses • Summer Intensive Language Institute

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