Kathleen E' Dillon, PhD

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Kathleen E. Dillon, PhD Associate
Director kedillon_at_ucdavis.edu http//uccllt.ucdavi
s.edu/
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What is the Consortium?

• 9 campuses
• 83 languages
• most of them at Berkeley and LA

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What is the Consortiums charge?

• a national model for language delivery
• Equal access to critical resources, i.e.
• LCTLs

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So, whats the problem?
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The Schwarzenegger Model
There are more problems than solutions
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UC

• Deans
• Department Chairs
• Untenured lecturers
• Committee on Courses

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Pedagogy of the Blackboard Age
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Face-to-Face Instruction

• is the optimum mode
• for language delivery

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especially if oral proficiency the principal
goal of instruction
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FLAS

• Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships

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Consortium makes efforts

• find the funds
• create the course
• approve the course
• pilot-test and evaluate the course
• cross-list across the system
• credit to the instructor of record on host campus
• remains on the recipient campus

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Progress To Date

• A UC Consortium Statement on
• Teaching Languages at a Distance
• in the UC System
• (http//uccllt.ucdavis.edu/Distance_Learning1.pdf)

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A distance course can accommodate a spectrum of

• learning styles
• personalities
• goals

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A hybrid model may be necessary
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Limited direct contact between instructors and
students via

• Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC)
• Teleconferencing
• Roving TAs
• Native speaker mentors on each campus

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The strength of the distance-learning format
resides in increasing access, especially to
LCTLs.
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Web vs. Face-to-Face

• Could use of the web for oral production
  replicate or replace teacher-mediated classroom
  instruction?

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WIMBA Voice Technology http//www.horizonwimba.com
/ Synchronous Asynchronous
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Preliminary results

• many of the communicative activities can be done
  on the web
• students seem to produce more language
• students become more confident speaking
• students who have difficulty with oral production
  do better

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Videoconferenced Language Courses

• Czech
• Danish
• Filipino
• Finnish
• Hindi

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Web courses

• Spanish Without Walls (FIPSE)
• Arabic Without Walls (FIPSE)
• Punjabi (Title VI, International Research and
  Studies)

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On the agenda

• Summer training workshop for distance instructors
• Fundraising for additional web courses
• Summer Intensive Language Institute