Allen, Edward D. and Valette, Rebecca M. Modern Language Classroom Techniques, a Handbook. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1972Allen, Edward D. and Valette, Rebecca M. Modern Language Classroom Techniques, a Handbook. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1972. 306 pp. $5.45.

This paper discusses an example of global media production in an educational context that is also a model for online intercultural exchange. We investigate the proces s of an international, research led film production project between two universities, RMIT University, Australia and the State University of New York, Oswego campus, USA (SUNY Oswego). The aim of this paper is to investigate how teams which are geographically, academically and culturally diverse may engage in a process of research led learning. We discuss important issues in the emerging field of online collaboration as they relate to practice and pedagogy in both higher education and industry. We offer so me basic guidelines for methods and practice in global online collaboration. We conclude that hybrid techniques which blend virtual and “real” or face to face classroom techniques may be most useful to produce exciting screen research and production output s.

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Writing and Culture in CALL

Computer-Assisted Language Learning ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7663-1.ch075 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1579-1603

Author(s):

Reyes Llopis-García ◽

Margarita Vinagre

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Direct Contact ◽

Native Speaker ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Target Language ◽

Cultural Learning ◽

Columbia University ◽

Self Assessment ◽

Language Classroom ◽

Target Culture

This chapter discusses the importance of writing as a key ability to address in the foreign/second language classroom. The need to design and implement projects and tasks that foster authentic cultural learning through the meaningful use of written production is addressed, and a project that meets these criteria is presented. This email tandem exchange project was conducted between 94 intermediate-level students (47 pairs) from Columbia University/Barnard College in New York and the Universidad Autonóma de Madrid in Spain during the Fall Semester 2010 (and subsequently in 2011 and 2012). There were several goals to this project: to help improve students' writing skills; to encourage them to learn about culture through authentic and real exposure to the target language (TL onwards, understood as “direct contact with a native speaker”); to foster progress in their use of the TLs through peer-to-peer corrections; and to take an active part in their own learning through self-assessment. Based on students' opinions, this project had a very positive impact on the way they viewed the foreign/target culture on both sides of the Atlantic. It also helped them enhance their written proficiency and acquire a new lexical mastery that would have been impossible through the limited and less-real scope of the classroom.

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Teaching Ovid - (B.W.) Boyd, (C.) Fox (edd.) Approaches to Teaching the Works of Ovid and the Ovidian Tradition. Pp. x + 294. New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 2010. Paper, US$19.75 (Cased, US$37.50). ISBN: 978-1-60329-063-0 (978-1-60329-062-3 hbk).

The Classical Review ◽

10.1017/s0009840x11003337 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 62 (1) ◽

pp. 155-157

Author(s):

Liz Oakley-Brown

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Modern Language Association ◽

Approaches To Teaching ◽

Modern Language

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