Linguistics Colloquium in the Language Lab FRIDAY, 17 NOVEMBER 2000
3:00 PMG 17 Cathedral of Learning
ABSTRACT:
This presentation will detail progress in the Mellon-funded project at Carnegie Mellon University to offer the first two years of French and Spanish on line. Portions of the first-semester French and Spanish courses will be demonstrated and the design process described, including pedagogical considerations and decisions to develop both WebCT and stand-alone components. Course assessment instruments in use will be briefly discussed in the context of preliminary results from the Spring 2000 pilot offering of Elementary French 1 Online.
Christopher C. Jones, PhD, is Principal Lecturer in French as well as Director of the Language Learning Resource Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Jones is an internationally acknowledged expert in computer-assisted language learning (CALL).
Robert Henderson Language Media Center, University of Pittsburgh
http://www.polyglot.pitt.edu/events/jones2000.html
Last revised: July 27, 2001