TEAL Certificate at UIUC Chilin Shih Misumi Sadler

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

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.

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

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 2 nd Language

Long-term Support • Teacher training is only half of the task. • Need coordinated support to build age-appropriate teaching materials. • Collecting L 2 production data to understand L 2 error patterns. • Research and databases for efficient language proficiency testing • Educate students to utilize available technologies and resources.

Support Systems

Scope of Work

On-going Projects at UIUC • Apply language technologies to build the infrastructure supporting second language teaching. – Collecting audio/video data of L 2 production – Investigating L 2 error patterns – Evaluating L 2 fluency – Incorporating machine learning methods to build computerized tutors. – Building natural language resources

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

Examples • Adaptive training and testing • Picture generation

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

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