THE	AMSTERDAM	SUMMER UNIVERSITY

	MAASTRICHT

Digital Audio & Video in Language Teaching
Sunday, August 20, 2006 - Sunday, August 27, 2006

In conjunction with the University of Amsterdam, Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO)

In this intensive course participants will explore the possibilities of digital audio and video for language teaching. The course will consist of theoretical sessions and hands-on workshops. The focus will not be on the technology itself, but on its implications and added value for pedagogical purposes. Participants will be actively involved and will develop - alone or in small groups - language activities and exercises for use in their lessons.

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Applicant Profile

This course is intended for newly qualified and practising foreign language teachers interested in the possibilities of the Internet for their classroom practice. A basic knowledge of computers is necessary: participants should at least be familiar with Windows platforms and word-processors.

Application

Applicants should submit their completed application form (by post or fax) as soon as possible, and no later than Friday, June 30, 2006.

AMSU Course Name: LANG-3.

Details

Date: Sunday, August 20, 2006 - Sunday, August 27, 2006.

Application Deadline: Friday, June 30, 2006.

Capacity: 25 participants.

Language of Instruction: English.

Location: This course will be held in one of the building equipped with computer rooms of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) located in the city centre.

Computers: For this course, only the use of Windows computers is supported, there will be no facilities available for Mac users.

Fee: € 745,- (including course materials, welcome drink, access to the cultural evening programme on the AMSU, coffee/tea breaks on Monday to Friday).

Course Dinner (Optional): € 35,- for the Course Dinner on Thursday evening.
Please specify if you wish to participate in the Course Dinner, either on your (pre)registration form or when confirming being awarded a Comenius 2.2/Grundtvig 3 grant.

Grant: COMENIUS 2.2/GRUNDTVIG 3 In-Service Training Grant of the European Union.

Grant's Course Code: NL-2005-002

Initiators: ILO - Graduate School of Teaching & Learning, University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (AMSU).

Coordination: The Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University (AMSU).

Registration: Confirmed participants are expected to register between 15.00 PM and 17.00 PM on Sunday, August 20, 2006 at the Felix Meritis building, located at Keizersgracht 324 in Amsterdam. Registration will be followed by an international food testing exercise and a welcome drink.

Course Leaders

Ton (Anton) G.M. Koet (Netherlands) - Teacher Trainer; Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA).

Ton Koet is a teacher trainer at the Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA). He is particularly interested in the teaching of pronunciation and in the application of speech technology in language teaching.

Links: Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO), University of Amsterdam (UvA).

Alessandra Corda (Netherlands) - Coordinator; Faculty of Arts, University of Leiden.

Alessandra Corda holds an MA in Classics and General Linguistics from the Università di Torino (Italy). From 1989 until 1997 she taught Italian at several Dutch institutions, among which the Faculty of Arts at Leiden University. Since 1996 she has been working at this Faculty as coordinator for CALL and ICT in education projects. She is particularly interested in the use of the Internet for foreign language teaching and has published and given seminars on this subject. She has been a tutor for the AMSU courses since 2001 and has worked together with Bart Bonamie, Ton Koet, Willem Verberk and Willy Weijdema.

Related: Organisations: Graduate School of Teaching & Learning (ILO); Organisations: University of Amsterdam (UvA); People: Bart Bonamie; People: Ton Koet; People: Willem Verberk; People: Willy Weijdema.

Links: Faculty of Arts, University of Leiden; Alessandra Corda on the ILO website.

Bart Bonamie (Belgium) - Philologue.

Bart Bonamie (Belgium) has an MA in Germanic Philology. After finishing his studies at the University of Ghent, Belgium, he worked at the same university for the Teacher Training Department at first, and later on for the Department of Education, specializing in digital literacy, youth cultures and integration of ICT in English language teaching. He is currently a lecturer of English at the Department of Tourism and Travel Management at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey.

Related: Organizations: Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey).

Links: Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University (Turkey).

The three trainers were also involved in the European project International Modules in ICT and Language Learning, providing modules for language teachers. The materials of this course have been developed and tried during this project.

Programme

Sunday, August 20, 2006
12.00 PM arrival
15.00 PM registration
16.30 PM International food testing exercise, welcome drinks and Social and cultural programme

Monday, August 21, 2006
09.30 AM Welcome and getting to know the course location
11.00 AM General introduction:
- added value of digital audio and video for language teaching
- some examples of language activities with digital audio and video (CD-ROM and web-based)
- trying them out as learners
- discussion
13.00 PM Lunch
14.00 PM Finding and using ready-to-use multimedia-activities on the Web
- Activity: make a list of interesting activities for the language you teach
17.00 PM Summary of today's session
18.00 PM Social and cultural programme

Tuesday, August 22, 2006
09.30 AM Working with Digital Audio and Video files
- Different audio and video files formats, different players
- How to find audio and video files on the WWW: tips and tricks continued
- Using audio and video from the WWW for language activities: what is important for the design of multimedia activities
13.00 PM Lunch
14.00 PM Designing an activity using digital audio or video from the WWW
17.00 PM Summary of today's session
18.00 PM Social and cultural programme

Wednesday, August 23, 2006
09.30 AM Digitalizing audio and video
- Audio and video digitalisation programs: how to digitalize? How to capture from the WWW?
- Learning to use a specific audio and/or video digitalisation tool
13.00 PM Lunch
14.00 PM Designing an activity for training listening skills
- Use of an authoring system and digital audio and/or video
- Presentation of the activities to the group
17.00 PM Summary of today's session
18.00 PM Social and cultural programme

Thursday, August 24, 2006
09.30 AM Speech recognition and speech synthesis: how do they work and how have they been applied in CALL?
- General introduction and demonstration of examples
- Discussion: the added value of speech recognition and synthesis for language teaching
13.00 PM Lunch
14.00 PM The potential of further use of speech synthesis in CALL
- Talking Heads Technology: what is it? Introduction and demonstration.
17.00 PM Summary of today's session
19.00 PM Course dinner

Friday, August 25, 2006
09.30 AM From a traditional language lab to a multimedia language centre: the impact on pedagogy.
13.00 PM Lunch
14.00 PM Discussion
16.00 PM Seminar wrap-up and evaluation
17.00 PM Certificate award and farewell drinks
18.00 PM Social and cultural programme

Saturday, August 26, 2006
10.00 AM Social and cultural programme