TEAL Certificate at UIUC

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TEAL Certificate at UIUC

• Chilin Shih
• Misumi Sadler
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Altgeld Hall, UIUC Image Kalev Leetaru
http//uiphoto.ncsa.uiuc.edu
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What is TEAL

• Teaching of East Asian Languages
• A language teaching concentration within the BA
  in the Department of East Asian Languages and
  Cultures.
• Provides the necessary training leading to
  certifying students to become teachers of East
  Asian Languages in the public schools.
• This program will lead to Illinois State Board of
  Education Certification.

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Requirements

• EALC Major requirements
• Language
• Advanced Level
• Disciplinary and period
• East Asian Civilization
• History
• Pre-1800 course
• Literature
• 4 Advanced courses
• EALC Colloquium

• TEAL Admission
• GPA of 2.5 and above
• Pass Illinois Certification Testing System test
  of Basic Skills
• TEAL requirements
• Professional education courses
• Teaching area specialization sequence with
  apprentice teaching
• Pass Illinois Certification Testing System Test

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Programs

• Languages
• Chinese
• Japanese
• Specially designed courses focusing on K-12
  language teaching
• Chinese 477 Chinese Orthography and Grammar for
  Language Teaching
• Japanese 460 Japanese as a 2nd Language

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Long-term Support

• Teacher training is only half of the task.
• Need coordinated support to build age-appropriate
  teaching materials.
• Collecting L2 production data to understand L2
  error patterns.
• Research and databases for efficient language
  proficiency testing
• Educate students to utilize available
  technologies and resources.

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Support Systems
Teachers
Materials
Infrastructure
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Scope of Work
K-1 K-2
K-3 K-4 K-5 K-6 K-7 K-8 K-9 K-10 K-11 K-12
L-3 L-4 L-5 L-6 L-7 L-8 L-9 L-10 L-11 L-12
L-1 L-2
L-2 L-3 L-4 L-5 L-6 L-7 L-8 L-9 L-10 L-11
L-1
L-1
L-2 L-3 L-4 L-5 L-6 L-7 L-8 L-9 L-10
L-1
L-2 L-3 L-4 L-5 L-6 L-7 L-8 L-9
That's 78 sets of teaching materials
L-2 L-3 L-4 L-5 L-6 L-7 L-8
L-1
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On-going Projects at UIUC

• Apply language technologies to build the
  infrastructure supporting second language
  teaching.
• Collecting audio/video data of L2 production
• Investigating L2 error patterns
• Evaluating L2 fluency
• Incorporating machine learning methods to build
  computerized tutors.
• Building natural language resources

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Language Technologies

• Multi-disciplinary effort
• Enable fast construction of teaching and testing
  materials
• On-line resources dictionary, text, images,
  videos
• Text analysis tools Word segmentation,
  concordance
• Text generation
• Picture generation
• Test generation
• Speech generation and recognition

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Examples

• Adaptive training and testing
• Picture generation

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Adaptive Training

• Prosody Tutor
• A computer program that teaches Chinese tones
• Adapting training/testing materials to suit
  student level
• Functions as a personalized tutor
• 8000 speech files in the data bank
• 8.2 improvement in 2 ½ hours

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Picture Generation

• Wordseye A text-to-scene conversion program.
• Bob Coyne at Columbia University
• Richard Sproat at UIUC.
• http//www.wordseye.com/