Columbia University
Video Production Workshop
This will be a 5-6 hour workshop in which a maximum of 15 foreign language instructors/TAs (max. 5 participants per camera) go through hands-on steps necessary for teaching students to produce their own videos using the foreign language.
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Computer-Assisted Audio Drills for Japanese
Development of computer-assisted drills for elementary Japanese.
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Vienna: A Third-Year German Reader
Development of a content-based and Web-based literary and cultural multimedia reader on Vienna for third-year German.
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The Holocaust: An Italian Perspective
Development of a Web site devoted to texts and films on the Holocaust in Italy and intended for students of intermediate and advanced Italian.
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Learning Scenarios for Intermediate German
Development of content-based teaching units for intermediate German courses. Units include the culture of travel, homeland and identity, the Greens and their history, emigration (Little German in New York), major events in German and Austrian history, the valuation of the past, modern German art, etc. Irene Motyl is co-director.
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Advanced Beginners Chinese Textbook
Development of a reading text for advanced beginners in the Columbia Chinese language program.
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Express Yourself: Texts, Tools, and Tasks for Advanced Chinese
Development of 16 video modules providing linguistic and communicative tools along with texts and tasks to strengthen discourse skills. The tools will provide catgorized vocabulary related to the theme of each lesson with examples of usage, commonly used sentence patterns and sequencing format related to the target discourse skills, and discourse modeliong through written text and /or audio-video segments.
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Finnish Grammar
Development of a Finnish Reference Grammar based on Robert Austerlitz's 1963 manuscript.
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