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Thursday, 15 July 2004: 9:30 AM-10:15 AM | |||
Oceanic 2 (Walt Disney World Dolphin Hotel) | |||
L-6: Foreign Language Testing in WebCT | |||
| Detailed Description: | Using Spanish examples, this presentation will demonstrate how to create sound/image quiz items for on-line foreign language classes. In these quizzes, students respond to visual and oral stimuli, thereby, encouraging them to think in terms of equivalencies rather than direct translations. | ||
| Presentation Format: | Showcase | ||
| Topic: | Enabling learning: Effective instructional practices and flexible design models | ||
| Target Audience: | Course Designers, Faculty and Other Instructors | ||
| Appropriate Audience Level: | Beginning or new users of WebCT, Experienced WebCT users | ||
| Abstract Text: | Using Spanish examples, this presentation will demonstrate how to create sound/image quiz items for on-line or hybrid foreign language classes. In these quizzes, students respond to visual and oral stimuli, thereby, encouraging them to think in terms of equivalencies rather than direct translations. When the student has a verbal or visual stimulus, s/he is less likely to translate from one language to the other, a practice that almost always results in incorrect sentences, since syntax and the context in which the word appears is crucial to correct usage. While audio/visual materials can easily be used in the classroom for discussions, they are more difficult to incorporate into exams because all students would need to complete a question before the class could move onto the next one. On-line testing using sound and images provides greater flexibility and avoids the pitfalls of written questions, which reinforce the student’s tendency to search for the meaning in English for individual words in Spanish or vice versa. This presentation will use examples in Spanish to demonstrate several types of questions created in Respondus and uploaded into WebCT that require the student to respond to questions in the foreign language through visual and sound stimuli without mediation through the English language. These quizzes can also be used as graded or un-graded exercises to increase student participation in class in order to offset the problems associated with larger foreign language classes. The number of student responses associated with each class period can then be increased to better approximate the number necessary for gaining proficiency.
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| Session Leader: | Marketta A. Laurila Tennessee Technological University | ||
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