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Project Details:
Principal Investigators on this project:
Doughty, Cathy
Technology Mediated Language Training
Can e-learning build language skills from Level 2 to Level 3?
Project Objective: Language Analysis and Stress
Project Definition: TMLT is computed-delivered and encompasses the range of self-contained or networked onsite training programs; at-home or office desktop self-study materials; simulations; and web-based training systems.
Project Importance:
- The federal government has invested millions of dollars in TMLT, plus the sheer quantity of vendors promising technology support for language training is overwhelming.
- Managers, trainers, language learners, and decision makers have asked for ways to assess the effectiveness of this convenient learning environment.
Project Background:
- How does listening skill in a foreign language develop over time?
- What does it take to get over the 2+ threshold?
- Are important aspects of listening, such as automaticity, lexical expansion, and moving from training tasks to job tasks, facilitated through technology-mediated language training?
Project Products:
- A review of LangNet and GLOSS for listening activities Level 2-3
- A scientific review of L2 listening research that focuses on development of listening from functional to professional ability
- A methodology for evaluating listening components of government and commercial products
Project Reports:
- Technology-Mediated Language Training: Listening Skills
- Technology-Mediated Language Training Evaluation Rubric
Project Activities:
CASL will:
- Develop an evaluation plan
- Define listening sub-skills
- Conduct a review by advanced learners of Chinese, Korean, Arabic, and Russian in two passes, one unstructured, one structured
- Deliver evaluation and methodology
In order to:
- Create a replicable methodology
- Identify the skills required to advance from Level 2 to Level 3
- Provide a general perspective on the training materials
- Implement formal evaluation method
- Determine applicability and ROI
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