Brown University

MacRewrite

Development of a prototype of a composition assistance program (MacRewrite) for advanced French and Spanish, under the direction of FranÃ§ois Hugot (now retired), Annie Wiart, and Sara Schaefer (who is no longer at Brown).

Ateliers d'Ecriture: French Composition at the Advanced Level

Development of a computer-based writing program with four discourse-oriented units (how to write a letter; how to write a diary; how to write a story; and how to write an essay) and the related discourse grammars. With FranÃ§ois Hugot.

Colloquial Egyptian Arabic: Lessons for a Second Semester

Continuation of a series of lessons and related materials to enable the instruction of a second semester of colloquial Egyptian Arabic at Brown University.

Workbooks for Elementary and Intermediate Japanese

Development of student workbooks for the locally developed Japanese curriculum.

Academic Discourses: Language and the Creation of Knowledge, an Interdisciplinary Colloquium

Colloquium held on the topic "Academic Discourses: Language and the Creation of Knowledge."

"Integrating Technology into the Foreign Language Curriculum: An Update" Conference

Support of a regional workshop on integrating technology into the foreign language curriculum conducted by the Center for Language Studies.

Language and Content: "Discipline-Based Approaches to Language Study" - 1991 Conference

"Language and Content: Discipline-Based Approaches to Language"

Foreign Language Teaching in an American University Context: A Videotape for New Instructors from Abroad

The project will produce a 20 minute videotape for the purpose of introducing the American University system and aspects of language teaching in an American university context to instructors in languages who have recently arrived from abroad.

Intermediate Korean Reader, Part I

Development of a reader for second-year Korean with texts written and annotated by the project director.

Developing a Team-Taught Graduate Course for Foreign Language Acquistion Research and Teaching Methodology

Although graduate TA's play a critical role in undergraduate language teaching at Brown, courses in FL acquisition theory and teaching methodology are currently offered only every other year in Italian and French. In order to make available such a course to all graduate students in FL's each year, the members of this project will meet in several working sessions during the summer of 1991 to develop a team-taught course in language acquisition theory and teaching methodology. They will produce a common core syllabus as well as language-specific materials, including videotapes of teaching demonstrations. The course will be implemented in the fall semester, 1991, and systematically evaluated and revised the following spring. Thereafter, the resulting set of syllabus and materials will be made available for dissemination and adaptation elsewhere.