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How to: Send email with non-western (e.g. Japanese) characters in Outlook Web...
If your emails with Japanese sent from Safari arrive with unreadable characters (squares or question marks, meaning the recipient’s computer cannot decode how to display the character your computer...
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Speaking dictionary/pronunciation help, Part 2 – The technology: Installation...
MS-Speech synthesis which comes free with Windows XP is a mature technology which gets even better if combined with free downloadable voice/language combinations and a simple interface. Since 2005, I...
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Speaking dictionary/pronunciation help, Part 1–the pedagogy
On the LRC PC’s, you can copy foreign language text to the clipboard (or with non-western languages to an MS-Word file) and have a wizard (right click, choose: “Read Clipboard”) pronounce for you,...
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Successful test of the new streaming video recording assignment for language...
Video recordings allow for a more authentic assessment of spoken language proficiency. Today, we could test a new Moodle video assignment type for Almut’s Summer II Elementary German II class:...
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How a Student takes a Moodle Video Assignment in the LRC
On one of the LRC iMacs, in the Safari web browser (open new window with COMMAND-key+n), go to your Moodle course, (1) find the video Assignment, read the assignment instructions (what your teacher...
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Speaking/Listening Assessments and Oral Exams: A comparison what the LRC has...
Moodle: I proposed for installing one of the free audio recorder plug-ins into our Moodle, but we are not there yet. However, we do have a new video recording assignment (which is based on Kaltura)....
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Learn Chinese character stroke-order with slowed-down animated GIFs
Further to our prior tips on learning Chinese stroke order, now you can take your time, in the LRC: To facilitate your practicing of Chinese character stroke-order, we have used the most helpful site...
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Sample of how students use the foreign language TTS (text-to-speech) in the LRC
Last week, I noticed this student in the LRC working on a speaking assignment in her SLA class. First, she wrote a draft of her presentation. She then had the Deskbot TTS wizard (in the lower right of...
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How to do model imitation recording exercises to improve language learner...
Sometimes teachers ask about support for voice recognition in the LRC. The term voice recognition or speech recognition (the former appears to be analogous to face recognition in authentication and...
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Sanako comparative recording exercises using Moodle
Comparative recordings are one of the best-established practices in SLA with technology. We can implement them here using: The Sanako Study 1200 language lab software installed in LRCRoomCoed434...
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How a student reviews a Moodle MS-Word file upload assignment for writing
The student can see the submitted grade in her user report: She can view the assignment: from where she can open the corrected MS-word file for more detailed corrective feedback: Filed under: Arabic,...
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How a teacher creates audio recordings for use with Sanako Student Voice...
One of the Sanako Student player’s useful features geared toward language learning activities, is that it can save the teacher the time and effort for inserting pauses into their audio recordings, so...
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Collections of online dictionaries
Here you can haz dictionaries. And if you use them in the Language Resource Center, you even have the chance to run into someone who can show you how to use them well....
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Links to computer assisted language learning tools
http://www.call4all.us///home/index2.phpFiled under: Arabic, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek (ancient), Greek (modern), Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese,...
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How to use a drawing tablet and Windows XP writing pad IME to write Japanese...
Our small group work spaces each now have a Wacom Bamboo drawing tablet installed. You can use these tablets in conjunction with the Windows XP writing pad IME to input Mandarin/Kanji character strokes...
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I2speak.com: Web-based IPA Keyboard
The Sciweavers Team announces http://www.i2speak.com: “an online Smart IPA Keyboard that lets you quickly type IPA phonetics without the need to memorize any symbol code. For every Roman character you...
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Independent study with free language learning materials from the FSI?
The Foreign Service Institute language learning materials – consisting of scanned documents and digitized audio of multiple courses per language – were still a heavily-advertised resource when I...
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Protected: Spring 2012 Faculty Workshop I: How to ease your end-of-term oral...
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Installing support for non-western languages in Windows XP
You do not have them if your control panel / regional and language options looks unchecked like this: you need your Windows XP install disk The installer is not smart enough to find the i386 folder,...
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