“Listen & Speak” Activities for Elementary Italian Cristina Pausini, PhD, Lecturer and...
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TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY LIGHTNING ROUND “Listen & Speak” Activities for Elementary Italian Cristina Pausini, PhD, Lecturer and Coordinator Italian Program, Tufts University May 22, 2013
“Listen & Speak” Activities for Elementary Italian Cristina Pausini, PhD, Lecturer and Coordinator Italian Program, Tufts University May 22, 2013
Listen & Speak Activities for Elementary Italian Cristina
Pausini, PhD, Lecturer and Coordinator Italian Program, Tufts
University May 22, 2013
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Teaching and Learning Goals Allow students to get more practice
listening to authentic audio materials. Allow students to check
their comprehension of such materials (True/False exercise + Answer
Key). Promote students pronunciation and fluency in Italian by
producing audio files of their own.
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Technology in Action Audio clips (mp3) uploaded in Trunk (under
Assignment). True/False exercises uploaded as documents. Students
audio clips uploaded in Trunk as attachments. Instructors
assessment in writing using the dialog box after the assignment has
been submitted.
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Model Audio Clip from http://www.audio-
lingua.eu/spip.php?rubrique6&lang=fr Languages available:
Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese,
Russian, Spanish
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Sample of Student Audio Clip
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Outcomes Benefits: students acknowledged that this activity
helped them especially with speaking and pronunciation. They also
found their instructors comments useful. Drawbacks: Word documents
(True/False questions) could not be instantly opened by Mac Users.
Also, time consuming for instructors to grade.
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Next Steps This was a successful pilot that only included four
activities over the span of the semester. I would like to add more
activities, including video as well as audio clips as models.
Students asked to be provided with the script, a vocabulary list,
and better recordings. In the future, I will work to meet these
requests.