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TEAL Certificate at UIUC Chilin Shih Misumi Sadler University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Altgeld Hall, UIUC Image: Kalev Leetaru http://uiphoto.ncsa.uiuc.edu

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TEAL Certificate at

UIUC

Chilin Shih

Misumi Sadler

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Altgeld Hall, UIUC Image: Kalev Leetaru http://uiphoto.ncsa.uiuc.edu

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What is TEAL

• Teaching of East Asian Languages– A language teaching concentration within the

BA in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

– Provides the necessary training leading to certifying students to become teachers of East Asian Languages in the public schools.

– This program will lead to Illinois State Board of Education Certification.

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Requirements

EALC Major requirements:

• Language– Advanced Level

• Disciplinary and period– East Asian Civilization

– History

– Pre-1800 course

– Literature

• 4 Advanced courses

• EALC Colloquium

• TEAL Admission:– GPA of 2.5 and above– Pass Illinois Certification

Testing System test of Basic Skills

• TEAL requirements:– Professional education

courses– Teaching area specialization

sequence with apprentice teaching

– Pass Illinois Certification Testing System Test

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Programs

• Languages:– Chinese– Japanese

• Specially designed courses focusing on K-12 language teaching:– Chinese 477: Chinese Orthography and

Grammar for Language Teaching– Japanese 460: Japanese as a 2nd Language

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Long-term Support

• Teacher training is only half of the task. • Need coordinated support to build age-appropriate

teaching materials.• Collecting L2 production data to understand L2

error patterns.• Research and databases for efficient language

proficiency testing• Educate students to utilize available technologies

and resources.

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Support Systems

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Scope of Work

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On-going Projects at UIUC

• Apply language technologies to build the infrastructure supporting second language teaching.– Collecting audio/video data of L2 production– Investigating L2 error patterns– Evaluating L2 fluency– Incorporating machine learning methods to

build computerized tutors.– Building natural language resources

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Language Technologies

• Multi-disciplinary effort• Enable fast construction of teaching and

testing materials– On-line resources: dictionary, text, images,

videos– Text analysis tools: Word segmentation,

concordance– Text generation– Picture generation– Test generation– Speech generation and recognition

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Examples

• Adaptive training and testing

• Picture generation

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Adaptive Training

• Prosody Tutor– A computer program that teaches Chinese tones– Adapting training/testing materials to suit

student level– Functions as a personalized tutor– 8000 speech files in the data bank– 8.2% improvement in 2 ½ hours

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Picture Generation

• Wordseye: A text-to-scene conversion program.– Bob Coyne at Columbia University – Richard Sproat at UIUC.

• http://www.wordseye.com/