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Listen & Speak Activities for Elementary Italian Cristina Pausini, PhD, Lecturer and Coordinator Italian Program, Tufts University May 22, 2013

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Teaching and Learning Goals Allow students to get more practice listening to authentic audio materials. Allow students to check their comprehension of such materials (True/False exercise + Answer Key). Promote students pronunciation and fluency in Italian by producing audio files of their own.

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Technology in Action Audio clips (mp3) uploaded in Trunk (under Assignment). True/False exercises uploaded as documents. Students audio clips uploaded in Trunk as attachments. Instructors assessment in writing using the dialog box after the assignment has been submitted.

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Model Audio Clip from http://www.audio- lingua.eu/spip.php?rubrique6&lang=fr Languages available: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish

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Sample of Student Audio Clip

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Outcomes Benefits: students acknowledged that this activity helped them especially with speaking and pronunciation. They also found their instructors comments useful. Drawbacks: Word documents (True/False questions) could not be instantly opened by Mac Users. Also, time consuming for instructors to grade.

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Next Steps This was a successful pilot that only included four activities over the span of the semester. I would like to add more activities, including video as well as audio clips as models. Students asked to be provided with the script, a vocabulary list, and better recordings. In the future, I will work to meet these requests.

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Thank you!