College of Education Course Syllabus

College of Education Course Syllabus

Course Prefix and Number: 7931
Course Title: Language Lab Design and Management
Regular Instructor: Elizabeth Caplan-Carbin, M.A. , Ph.D. Student
Course Prerequisites: none
Course Description: This course provides a framework for continued inquiry into the knowledge and skills necessary to design, create and/or direct the operations of a foreign language learning laboratory facility including theoretical, pedagogic concerns as well as practical and technological considerations.

Course Objectives

Content Outline

Instructional Strategies

Assessment Techniques

Grading Criteria

6. Course Objectives:

A. Students will be able to give explanations and the theoretical foundations for language lab technology. They will be able to describe the pedagogic situations (eg. pronunciation drill, composition practice, exposure to realia, etc.) and the language learning goals for which the use of language lab equipment is most suited and best justified.

B. Students will be able to recognize a properly equipped language lab and they will be able to present preliminary plans for creating a language lab from the ground up, incorporating all technological, spatial and personnel requirements. Students will have access to all of the necessary resources for a full language lab inventory.

C. Students will gain knowledge through first-hand experience of instructional methods and materials applicable to the foreign language technology lab. They will develop and use an instrument of evaluation for foreign language pedagogic materials of any language. Ultimately, they will be able to give informed opinions about a variety of foreign language software, video and audio materials.

D. In order to realize the potential of the language lab to create custom materials, students will create original materials using production and authoring tools and participate in original lesson plans designed by classmates. In this way students will be aware of the many different instructional techniques available through technology. Top

7. Content Outline:

I. Theory and Pedagogy

A. Learning Theory

B. Synchrony/Asynchrony

C. Curriculum

D. Management / Measurement

E. Research

II. Hardware and Physical Structure

A. Technologies

i. Audio Systems

ii. Network Systems

iii. Computer Hardware & Peripherals

B. Spatial / Electrical Requirements

i. Room Structure

ii. Furniture

iii. Lighting

iv. Power and Circuitry

C. Resources (manufacturers, catalogs, support sources, etc.)

III. Instructional Methods and Materials

A. Software, Courseware, Telecommunications

i. Commercial Language Courseware

ii. Internet Resources

iii. Multi-Media, Interactive Software

iv. Whiteboard, File Sharing

v. Management / Measurement Software

B. Audio Libraries, Courseware, Telecommunications

i. Resourcing

ii. Collecting

iii. Producing

C. Video Libraries, Courseware, Telecommunications

i. Resourcing

ii. Collecting

iii. Producing

D. Broadcast Sources

i. Internet

ii. Satellite

iii. Public Television

E. Authoring Tools

i. Multi-Media

a. PowerPoint

b. WP Presentations

c. Corel 5.0 Move

ii. Interactive Multi-Media

a. Hyperstudio

b. Hypercard

c. Authorware

d. Teacher's Tools

iii. Interactive Websites (requiring user input)

iv. Web Page Publishing

v. Chat, Newsgroup, Email Communications

vi. Audio Tape

a. Communication Interactions

b. Radio Plays

vii. Video Tape

a. Enactments (Plays)

b. Sub-Titling

c. Over-Dubbing

8. Instructional Strategies:

Multi-media enhanced lectures presenting information outlined in sections I,II, and III

Mastery-based projects outlined in section III E

Readings on-line and in text concerning subjects in section I

Demonstrations, Exercises and Assignments covering topics in sections III A through D.

Website homepage containing access to on-line:

Lecture Presentations
Course Syllabus
Links to on-line readings
Directories of Language Learning Technology Listservs, Newsgroups, Chatrooms
Links to on-line E-Journals
Links to University Language Lab Homepages
Input form for adding to resource database and frequently asked question file
E-mail question response (that adds to faq file)
Student Assessment Techniques:

9. Assessment Instruments

A. Students will complete a series of activities to experience the instructional methods in section III. (Addresses Objective C)

B. Students will present an investigative report covering one of the three topics or eight subtopics of section II. (Addresses Objective B)

C. Students will present a thesis outline of one of the five topics in section I A-D. (Addresses Objective A)

D. Students will complete a final project using any oth the tools or techniques outlined in section III E. (Addresses Objective D)

10. Grading Criteria:

A: Completion of Assessments A-D.

B: Completion of Assessments A-C.

C: Completion of Assessments A-B.

D. Completion of Assessment A.

11. Textbook (s) and Readings

A. Internet Information Sites

B. Journal Articles

C. Selected Texts

READLab Director Guidelines: http://www.cet.middlebury.edu/herren/pages/langTech.html

READ IALL Management Manual http://www.temple.edu/MLC/manualovr.html

READ Planning a Language Resource Center http://edvista.com/claire/labplan.html

READ Installing a multimedia laboratory: some lessons to be learned

READ A Language Professional's Guide to the World Wide Web http://agoralang.com/calico/webarticle.html

READ Ginger Vehaskari's Helpful hints about Language Lab Activities

READ http://www.eslcafe.com/discussion/wwwboard8/messages/289.html

READ http://www.eslcafe.com/discussion/wwwboard8/messages/15.html

SURF Cafe MOOlano http://www-moolano.berkeley.edu/

SURF Peter Götz' WWW as a Teaching Tool http://web.uvic.ca/german/web/

READ Internet Teaching: Existing Tools and Projects http://info.ox.ac.uk/jtap/reports/teaching/

READ Teaching with the Web http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/lss/lang/teach.html

CONTACT FLTEACH Listserv

SURF FLTEACH WWW Resources for Foreign Language Instructors

SURF Agora Language Marketplace http://agoralang.com/agora/hardware.html

SURF Language Lab Design Consulting Services http://www.sover.net/~ren/langlab.html

SURF U. of Richmond Language Lab Resource Page http://www.richmond.edu/~lang/fl_gener.html

SURF World Language Pages http://www.livjm.ac.uk/language/