Multimedia and Second Language Acquisition

Course Description: Fall 2009

164:211, 09:238, 13:253, 35:212

Meeting room : Information Arcade Classroom, Main Library

http://www.uiowa.edu/~c164211

Instructor:
Sue K. Otto, Director, Language Media Center
Adjunct Associate Professor, FLARE and Spanish & Portuguese
Sue Otto's personal homepage
116C Phillips Hall
335-2332
sue-otto@uiowa.edu
Office hours: Monday and Thursday, 9:15 - 10:45 a.m. and by appointment

Graduate Assistant:
Marta Tecedor Cabrero, Language Media Center/FLARE and Spanish & Portuguese
marta-tecedorcabrero@uiowa.edu
Office hours (in PH 651Studio): Thursday 2:30 - 4:30 pm

Departmental Executive Officers:

Judith E. Liskin-Gasparro and Roumyana Slabakova (FLARE); Roland Racevskis (French & Italian and German); Mercedes Niño Murcia (Spanish & Portuguese).

Course Text: Calling on CALL: From Theory and Research to New Directions in Foreign Language Teaching, Lara Ducate & Nike Arnold, Eds. (CALICO Monograph Series Vol. 5, 2006), available from Iowa Book and Supply.

Course goals.

Students will:

• Understand foreign language multimedia in the context of current SLA theories and research. Class will reflect on how the capabilities of technology relate to specific issues in second language learning: interactivity, metacognitive knowledge, learner styles/individual differences, motivation, authenticity, autonomy and learner control, attention and awareness, grammar, task-based instruction, and culture.

• Evaluate how foreign language multimedia can support language teaching. Course will present a series of concepts that can be used to understand, evaluate, or design a wide range of applications in computer-assisted language learning (CALL), including interactivity, interfaces and navigation, authentic materials, learning tasks and tools.

• Develop multimedia in a curricular context. Projects will explore how technology is integrated into the curriculum. Issues include materials development, copyright and multimedia, and delivery environments.

Course Grade:

20% Demonstration and critique of foreign language software

30% Postings to ICON discussion

50% Multimedia authoring project, including the following components of the final grade:

	5%	Preliminary proposal (one page), September 23 (uploaded by noon to ICON Dropbox)
	10%	Expanded proposal and annotated bibliography, October 9 (uploaded by noon to ICON Dropbox)
	5%	In-Class Project Presentation
	20%	Project implementation and poster (Poster Session: December 4, 2008)
	10%	Final Project report, Monday, December 14 (2 hard copies)

Policies for Students

WORK EXPECTATIONS

For each semester hour credit in this course, students should expect to spend two hours per week preparing for class sessions. Attendance at all classes is required unless excused by the instructor in accordance with college policies.

COMPLAINT PROCEDURES

If you have concerns about the design or conduct of the course or grading in the course, you should first make an appointment with your instructor, Professor Sue Otto (120 Phillips Hall, 335-2332), to discuss the matter. If the issue cannot be resolved, you should take your concerns to one of the FLARE co-Directors, Professor Judith Liskin-Gasparro (453 Phillips Hall, 335-2248) or Professor Roumyana Slabakova (557 EPB, 335-0208. Any complaints unresolved within FLARE will be referred to the Graduate College. (See the Manual of Rules and Regulations of the Graduate College).

PLAGIARISM (ACADEMIC FRAUD)

A student who plagiarizes or cheats on any assignment in any course faces penalties that may include an F on the assignment or an F in the course. If your instructor suspects plagiarism or cheating, she is required to inform the student in writing and to give the student a copy of the report submitted to the FLARE co-Directors and to the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The College may assign additional penalties, as the incident warrants. The student has the right to request a hearing within the Department and/or within the College. (See the Manual of Rules and Regulations of the Graduate College).

ACCOMMODATION OF STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES

I would like to hear from anyone who has a disability which may require some modification of seating, testing, or other class requirements so that appropriate arrangements may be made. Please see me during my office hours. (http://www.uiowa.edu/~sds/)

SEXUAL HARASSMENT

Sexual harassment is reprehensible and will not be tolerated by the University. It subverts the mission of the University and threatens the well-being of students, faculty, and staff. Visit this site (http://www.sexualharassment.uiowa.edu/) for definitions, assistance, and the full University policy.

ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION

University policy specifies that students are responsible for all official correspondence sent to their standard University of Iowa e-mail address (@uiowa.edu). Students should check their account frequently. (OperationsManual, III.II.15. 2. k.11.)

FLU AND CLASSROOM ABSENCE POLICY

Public health authorities have recommended that people with flu-like illnesses stay home and not return to public spaces until 24 hours after they have no fever. In order to prevent the spread of disease, please do not come to class, meet with other groups of students, attend office hours, or contact offices in person while you are ill. Based on this recommendation, I will not require you to report to a doctor or to Student Health to verify a flu-like illness if you are ill, please complete an illness-absence form (http://www.registrar.uiowa.edu/forms/H1N1_absence_form.pdf ) when you are well enough to do so. Your grade will not be penalized for absences if you are following the recommendations of health authorities.

REACTING SAFELY TO SEVERE WEATHER

In severe weather, the class members should seek shelter in the innermost part of the building, if possible at the lowest level, staying clear of windows and free-standing expanses. The class will continue if possible when the event is over.

Week 3 (September 8): Interfaces and Learner Control; Software Evaluation

Class activity: Demo and hands-on workshop. Dreamweaver: Tables and Cascading Style Sheets; General introduction to Fireworks)

Assignment: Run your assigned software for the Software review and begin planning your Camtasia software demo presentation. See these informational pages linked from main class website: Software Evaluation and Camtasia Storyboarding.

Readings:

Calling on CALL Chapter 13 (pp. 313-338): Philip Hubbard, "Evaluating CALL Software"

Lohr, Linda L. (2000). Three Principles of Perception for Instructional Interface Design. Educational Technology January-February, 45-52. Available as PDF on class ICON site in Content section.

Lawless, Kimberly A. and Brown, Scott W. (1997). Multimedia Learning Environments: Issues of Learner Control and Navigation. Instructional Science 25, 117-131. Available online via Infohawk.

Week 4 (September 15): Reading and CALL

Class activity: General intro to authoring. Demo and hands-on workshop: Hot Potatoes. (JQuiz, JMatch and JCloze Hot Potatoes)

Assignment: View Hot Potatoes tutorials and practice authoring with Hot Potatoes; begin planning for your courseware project and writing your preliminary proposal: Preliminary Proposal Guidelines.

Readings:

Calling on CALL Chapter 4 (pp. 69-98): Dorothy M. Chun, "CALL Technologies for L2 Reading"

Philip Murphy. (2007) "Reading Comprehension Exercises Online: The Effects of feedback, proficiency and interaction." Language Learning & Technology, October 2007, Volume 11, Number 3. Available online at http://llt.msu.edu/vol11num3/murphy/.

Optional readings: Brandl, Klaus, (2002) The Integration of Internet-Based Reading Materials into the Foreign Language Curriculum: From Teacher- to Student-Centered Approaches. Language Learning and Technology 6(3), 87-107. Available at http://llt.msu.edu/vol6num3/brandl/default.html .

Week 5 (September 22): Listening Comprehension and CALL

Class activity: Authoring with ObjectMover. Instructor presentation of software.

Assignment: Finish preliminary courseware development proposal for submission by Wednesday.

Readings:

Calling on CALL Chapter 5 (pp. 99-125): Linda C. Jones, "Listening Comprehension in Multimedia Environments"

Optional reading: Jones, Linda C. and Plass, Jan L. (2002) Supporting Listening Comprehension and Vocabulary Acquisition in French with Multimedia Annotations. The Modern Language Journal, 86(4), 546-561. Available online via Infohawk.

Preliminary one-page courseware development proposal due by noon on Wednesday, September 23, uploaded to the ICON Dropbox (in the Preliminary Proposal folder).

The file should be named with the initial letter of your first name + your last name + "-prelimprop" (e.g., sotto-prelimprop.doc).

Please set the paper size for your document (in the Page Setup menu) to US Letter.

Week 6 (September 29): Pronunciation and CALL

Class activity: Student presentations of software (A, B, C).

Assignment: Begin work on Expanded Courseware Proposal: Expanded Courseware Proposal Guidelines

Readings:

Calling on CALL Chapter 6 (pp.127-148): Mary Grantham O'Brien, "Teaching Pronunciation and Intonation with Computer Technology"

Hincks, Rebecca. (2003) Speech technologies for pronunciation feedback and evaluation. ReCALL 15(1), 3-20. Online via Infohawk. [Click on the ReCALL (Cambridge, England) link in the list of title entries that results from a search on ReCALL as a Title.]

Week 7 (October 6): Grammar and Feedback and CALL

Class activity: Student presentations of software (D, E, F).

Assignment: Complete expanded courseware development proposal and bibliography by Friday.

Readings:

Schulze, Mathias. (2003) Grammatical Errors and Feedback: Some Theoretical Insights. CALICO Journal, 20:3, 437-450. Available as PDF on class ICON site in Content section.

Expanded courseware development proposal and bibliography due Friday, October 9, by noon (5 pages,
double-spaced), uploaded to the ICON Dropbox (in the Expanded Proposal folder).

Please put your name and a page number in the header of your document.

The file should be named with the initial letter of your first name + your last name + "-expprop" (e.g., sotto-expprop.doc).

Please set the paper size for your document (in the Page Setup menu) to US Letter.

Week 8 (October 13): Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), Part I

Class activity: Student presentations of software (G, H, I).

Readings:

Calling on CALL Chapter 8 (pp.181-209): Zsuzsana I. Abrams, "From Theory to Practice: Intracultural CMC in the L2 Classroom"

Optional reading: Hampel, Regine. (2006) Rethinking task design for the digital age: A framework for language teaching and learning in a synchronous online environment. ReCALL 18(1), 105-121. Online via Infohawk.

Week 9 (October 20): Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC), Part II

Class activity: Student presentations of software (J, K, L).

Assignment: Three completed activities for courseware development project, including links from your project index page

Readings:

Calling on CALL Chapter 9 (pp. 211-236): Lara Lomicka, "Understanding the Other: Intercultural Exchange and CMC"

Thorne, Steven L. (2003) Artifacts and Cultures-of-Use in Intercultural Communication. Language Learning & Technology 7, 2, 120-136. Available online at http://llt.msu.edu/vol7num2/thorne/default.html .

Week 10 (October 27): Culture and CALL

Class activity: Clinic for problems with project websites.

Assignment:

Readings:

Calling on CALL Chapter 10 (pp. 237-268): Sébastien Dubreil "Gaining Perspective on Culture through CALL"

Furstenberg, Gilberte, Levet, Sabine, English, Kathryn, and Maillet, Katherine (2001). Giving a Virtual Voice to the Silent Language of Culture: The Cultura Project. Language Learning and Technology 5(1), 55-102. Available online at: http://llt.msu.edu/vol5num1/furstenberg/default.html

Week 11 (November 3): Interactivity and CALL

Class activity: Project presentations by students (A, B, C).

Assignment: Look at and critique projects presented in class.

Reading:

Chapelle, Carol. (2005) Interactionist SLA Theory in CALL Research. In Joy L. Egbert & Gina Mikel Petrie (eds.), CALL research perspectives (pp. 53-64). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Available as PDF on class ICON site in Content section.

Heift, T. (2003). Drag or Type, but don't Click: A Study on the Effectiveness of Different CALL Exercise Types. Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 6(3), 69-87. Available as PDF on class ICON site in Content section.

Week 12 (November 10): Constructivism and CALL

Class activity: Project presentations by students (D, E, F).

Assignment: Look at and critique projects presented in class.

Reading:

Felix, Uschi. (2005) E-learning pedagogy in the third millenium: The need for combining social and cognitive constructivist approaches. ReCALL 17(1), 85-100. Available online through Infohawk.

Week 13 (November 17): Web 2.0, Blogs and Wikis

Class activity: Project presentations by students (G, H, I).

Assignment: Look at and critique projects presented in class. Write 50-word project abstract and upload to the ICON Dropbox (in the 50-Word Project Abstract folder) by noon on Monday, November 30.

Reading:

Sykes, Julie M., Oskoz, Ana, and Thorne, Steven L. (2008) Web 2.0, Synthetic Immersive Environments, and Mobile Resources for Language Education. CALICO Journal 25(3), pp. 528-546. Available as PDF on class ICON site in Content section.

Additional reading (select one of the following):

Murray, Liam and Hourigan, Tríona. (2008) Blogs for specific purposes: Expressivist or socio-cognitivist approach? ReCALL 20(1), 82-97. Available online through Infohawk.

Lund, Andreas. (2008) Wikis: A collective approach to language production. ReCALL 20(1), 35-54. Available online through Infohawk.

Cooke-Plagwitz, Jessamine. (2008) New Directions in CALL: An Objective Introduction to Second Life. CALICO Journal 25(3), pp. 547-557. Available as PDF on class ICON site in Content section.

Week 14 (November 24): No Classes (Thanksgiving Week)

Week 15 (December 1): Class onTuesdayand Poster Session on Thursday

Class activity: Project presentations by students (J, K, L).

Assignment: Look at and critique projects presented in class.

No Reading

Thursday, December 3: Poster Session, 3-5 p.m. (setup at 2 p.m.)
International Programs Commons (1117 UCC)
Poster Guidelines