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Simultaneous Interpreting - The murder of Chris Alexander

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Opening statement by the Defense in the Brandy Alexander's trial, materials prepared by Prof. CHARLES H. ROSE III Director, Center for Excellence in Advocacy, Stetson University College of Law. Prof. Rose is currently the Dean of Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law.https://www.stetson.edu/law/studyabroad/oxford/media/State-v-Alexander-Oxford-Version.pdfAccompanying recording is included at 118 words per minute. The National Center for State Courts (NCSC) exam is approximately 120 WPM and the durantion is 8 minutes. There are 35 scoring units which represent objective characteristics of language that interpreters must understand and render appropriately during the interpretation. For more information on scoring units, please visit this LINK. The majority of these scoring units come from Quizlet sets available HERE. **The script and recording are for practice purposes only! It should not be perceived as legal advice. If you have any law questions or concerns, you should contact an attorney. 

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Homework/Assignment

Author: Fatima Maria Cornwall

World Language Student Video Project Assignment Ideas

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"This project was created to conjoin my two areas of study–a foreign language and media production. What inspired this project was my experience seeing other students struggle with the technological aspect of video editing, while also not enjoying the assignment overall. My aim was to address both of these issues to create fun, easy video project ideas for teachers to implement into the classroom." - Sata Vanasouk Fall 2019

Material Type: Student Guide

Author: Sata Vanasouk

P.A.C.E Guide

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P.A.C.E is a story-based and guided participatory approach to teaching grammar in World Languages to students. This slideshow presentation is a guide on how to create a P.A.C.E presentation, providing a sample presentation and activity for instructors to understand what the presentation and activity ought to look like. The sample activity also includes standards to allow instructors to understand how to choose standards based on their activities.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

City Icons

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Variety of cultural city icons for multiple countries To download and access the icons, click on view resource. This will open the resource in a new google drive tab. In the top right corner there should be a download button. The folder will download as a ZIP file. Once the ZIP file is downloaded, double click on it to open it, and it will create a new folder with all the icons! The icons are PNG files, which means they have a transparent background, so they can easily be placed on top of other materials.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration

Author: Chloe Pampush

Intercultural Healthcare

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This lesson was designed to improve student's intercultural competency. From this, the students will learn about cultural differences that could influence how people interact in a health care setting. After identifying the differences, students will practice using medical terms and phrases in their target language.

Material Type: Lesson

Authors: Amber Hoye, Daum Jung

Digital Humanities / Authentic Materials Index

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Welcome to our community curated collection of digital humanities, authentic material, and OER project sites. We welcome your collaboration! In order to understand where to place a site, please review the definitions below each category. Digital Humanities Sites take collections of video, text, audio or other artifacts and transform them into something that is widely accessible online. While some sites are just virtual collections of content, the best sites showcase this information in new and interesting ways. Authentic Materials or realia are real-life examples of language used in everyday life. Here are some examples: - TV shows, news segments, documentaries, movie clips and trailers, online videos, and commercials - Radio broadcasts, songs, and podcasts - Photographs, artwork, signs, postcards, maps, and advertisements - Magazines, letters and emails, news articles, brochures, websites, blogs, and social media posts - Recipes, circular ads, food labels, bus and train schedules, menus, and price tags and product descriptions "

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Amber Hoye, Kelly Arispe

COERLL OER Hangout: Creating OER with students

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Description provided by COERLL: COERLL hosted an online “OER hangout” on September 25th on the subject of creating open educational resources (OER) with students. With 26 people attending, five language instructors shared their experiences of working with their students to create openly licensed resources for teaching and learning: Amber Hoye and Kelly Arispe lead the Boise State University Department of World Languages’ Pathways OER Language Teaching Repository of openly licensed proficiency based activities, created by students and teachers. Kathryn Murphy-Judy, Ngoc-My Guidarelli, and Laura Middlebrooks are part of a team of faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University who have developed an open, connected platform for students to share authentic resources. At Boise State, upper-level undergraduate students, with the mentorship of staff and faculty, create activities to be used in the weekly language lab component of introductory language courses. These activities can also be used in the classroom and K-12 teachers in Idaho have been involved in creating and teaching with them. At Virginia Commonwealth University, undergraduate students in the 202 class, who are either majors on their way to upper level courses or students finishing their language requirement, curate authentic resources and discuss them with native speakers. Then, upper level students turn those curations into instructional modules, which are being integrated into online open textbooks. You can learn more about the logistics of these projects by viewing the webinar video, reading about the projects, and perusing the materials. Here, we’ll mention a few of the important themes that came up during the discussion. One important element of students being involved in materials creation is that they understand what other students will be interested in and can choose topics and texts they know their peers will enjoy. Involving students ensures that a more diverse array of voices and perspectives are represented in the materials, and gives students more of a choice in their own education. Students also gain skills beyond language and culture when they work on these projects: digital citizenship, open license knowledge, technical skills, an understanding of language proficiency, and knowledge of state and national standards. Each of these projects has a broad community of people with various skills who can support each other and contribute in different ways. At Boise State, the language resource center director, language students and students from other departments, faculty mentors, SLA & CALL researchers, K-12 teachers, state partners, and librarians have all contributed to the OER. At VCU, students, faculty, and librarians contribute to the materials and partnerships are developing with K-12 teachers who use the materials in their courses. Each of these projects follows an iterative process of development. The work doesn’t start and finish in the span of a semester, it grows and changes. Students develop materials, native speakers proofread them, teachers teach with them, and the team refines them. The Pathways Project carries a disclaimer that “The activities on the Pathways Project OER Repository were created by upper-division students at Boise State University and serve as a foundation that our community of practice can build upon and refine. While they are polished, we welcome and encourage collaboration from language instructors to help modify grammar, syntax, and content where needed.” The cycle of the projects is such that lower-level students can get involved in the project as learners, but go on to take a more active role in the project as they progress. The panelists recommend to anyone interested in creating OER with their students that they start small, and reach out to available communities (institution-wide, or online professional networks) for support and sharing. On that note, COERLL’s next OER hangout is on the topic of joining a teacher community. Join us on November 13th! View the webinar video, links to the repositories, slides from the presenters, and more on the event page of COERLL’s website.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Amber Hoye, Kathryn Murphy-Judy, Kelly Arispe, Laura Middlebrooks, Ngoc-MY Guidarelli

“Pathways Project Showcase” Webinar Recording (Closed Captioned) | Boise State OER Lunch and Learn Session 2

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Pathways Project co-directors Kelly Arispe and Amber Hoye hosted a showcase of the Pathways Project on September 24th for the Boise State community and others interested in learning more about the work being done at Boise State. Webinar Description: The Pathways Project hosts a collection of over 450 classroom activities across 10 different languages, all collaboratively created by Idaho world language students and teachers. In this workshop, we’ll explore how we’ve used OER Commons to host these ancillary materials, our partnership with world language students and teachers, and share some lessons we’ve learned along the way! Participants will gain an understanding of the features of OER Commons, ideas for co-creating with students, and an understanding of resources available to K-16 language instructors.

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Amber Hoye, Kelly Arispe

NFLC Virtual Summit (2020): Practical Ways to Simplify, Systematize Flipped Teaching

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This session will provide an abbreviated version of the online course Technology-Enhanced Language Learning. Participants will be introduced to the main concepts of the class and will learn the three key ”golden rules” for transitioning to teaching languages in a post-COVID world. This practical and hopeful session will help assuage any anxieties about the start of school in fall 2020. -------------------------------------------------------- Session Presenter(s): Kelly Arispe, Amber Hoye

Material Type: Teaching/Learning Strategy

Authors: Amber Hoye, Kelly Arispe

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