Overview

iPods and 2nd Language Acquisition
Thursday, May 24, 2007
2007 CALICO annual conference

Texas State UniversityMobile media devices such as iPods introduce radically new ways to produce, organize, delivery and use media, be it text, images, audio and/or video or, more often than not, multimodal.  Middlebury College Language Schools have had a number of pilot projects that integrate iPods into their curriculum including selected programs of study in Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish.  The French School in particular, edited, re-edited, produced and delivered thousands of media files for first year students as well as third year students of phonetics, the latter requiring students to produce and publish audio for dozens of capture assignments.