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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.

Interactive Flash Modules for Elementary Japanese

Development of multimedia materials filmed in Japan to accompany the textbook NAKAMA. With Fumiko Nazikian and Jamie Rankin.

Russian Songs for Beginning Russian

Development of materials on twelve Russian songs for use in first-year Russian, including recordings, lyrics, and comments on pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, and culture.

Digital Version of SuraSura

Development of a digital version of the intermediate Japanese textbook SuraSura, published by the Yale
Press. Masahiko Seto, co-director.

Learning Scenarios for Intermediate German

Development of content-based teaching units for intermediate German courses. Units include the culture of travel, homeland and identity, the Greens and their history, emigration (Little German in New York), major events in German and Austrian history, the valuation of the past, modern German art, etc. Irene Motyl is co-director.

Immigrant Voices: Stories from Hispanic Communities in Boston

Development of Web-based modules for intermediate Spanish on the experience of Spanish-speaking immigrants in the Boston area. The modules include videos of interviews and contextual materials.

Rencontres multiethniques, part II

Development of a Web-based module for intermediate French on social interactions and among ethnic groups in France today. The module includes interviews with young Parisians, a multicultural "notionary" (a compendium of cultural notions from different perspectives), a glossary of colloquial, and related print materials expressions

Recordings of Native Speakers for Aural Proficiency in Spanish Classes: Cara a Cara

This project will allow the taping of segments for Cara a Cara in Buenos Aires, Argentina during winter quarter, 2000. Taping in Argentina would provide key opportunities to expand upon the projects general themes by illustrating examples of authentic speech and settings in a Latin American context. The Argentine component could be used by both Latin American Studies and Spanish Language instructors as a teaching and study-abroad orientation resource in the college.

Virtual Paris: Using Multimedia in an Advanced Intermediate French Course

"French 0151: Virtual Paris" is an advanced intermediate course designed especially to prepare students for a semester or year of study abroad in the "Brown in Paris" program. The course relies heavily on activities with various electronic media. This proposal seeks funding assistance for the purchase of a CD-ROM and DVD titles to be used in the course and available as well for inclusion in other courses in the French studies department.

Creating Literacy-Based Prototype Projects for Advanced Chinese Learners on the Web

This project will choose a number of topics dealing with Chinese culture, society, history and politics and will identify illustrative web sites in Chinese on these topics. On the basis of these materials and incorporating critical commentaries, questions and activities, the director and her assistants will produce a minimum of five Ã¢â‚¬Å“prototypesÃ¢â‚¬Â for use in the instruction of Ã¢â‚¬Å“Chinese 103: Multimedia Chinese.Ã¢â‚¬Â These theme-based prototypes will serve both as focal points of classroom discussion and as models for students in the course, who will be required by the end of the semester to have produced their own theme-based reports for presentation in class and for posting on the course web-page.