Authentic Hindi/Urdu Audio-Video Materials for Classroom Use

Grant Details

Amount: 2824.00

Project Start Date: 01/14/02

Status: Completed

Project Type:
Campus Based

Languages: Hindi Urdu

Project Level:
All - All Levels

Project Skills:
Cultural Awareness
Listening

Institutions Involved:
Cornell University

Primary Contact:
Mehr Farooqi ()

116 Rockefeller Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca , New York 14853
Phone: (607) 255-8498

Hindi and Urdu represent distinct speech registers, but are taught as one language in American universities at the beginning level. Within Hindi and Urdu there are multiple speech registers. The goal of this project is to collect language data distinctive of various speech registers for use as authentic audio material in classroom. The present project is extremely important because it will for the first time collect spoken language samples of Hindi and Urdu speech registers, and make the language data available to all the national centers teaching Hindi/Urdu.

Recordings of Native Speakers for Aural Proficiency in Spanish Classes: Cara a Cara

Grant Details

Amount: 5315.00

Project Start Date: 12/31/99

Status:

Project Type:

Languages: Spanish

Project Level:
All - All Levels

Project Skills:
All - Addresses all language skills

Institutions Involved:
University of Chicago

Primary Contact:
Maria Cecilia Lozada (mclozada@uchicago.edu)

Wieboldt 205B
University of Chicago
Chicago , IL 60637
Phone: (773) 702-8481

This project will allow the taping of segments for Cara a Cara in Buenos Aires, Argentina during winter quarter, 2000. Taping in Argentina would provide key opportunities to expand upon the projects general themes by illustrating examples of authentic speech and settings in a Latin American context. The Argentine component could be used by both Latin American Studies and Spanish Language instructors as a teaching and study-abroad orientation resource in the college.