Immersion multimedia for adult Chiricahua language learners

[Katherine M.Humphrey]

They just didn't know where to go on the Cherokee Nation website---the one on the CN website is better actually, but it's hard to find.  Mia's is better in that more people will use it.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary S. Linn" <mslinn at ou.edu>
Date: Friday, December 30, 2005 11:03 am
Subject: Re: [ILAT] Immersion multimedia for adult Chiricahua language learners

> It looks like they took the one (with permission) from the CN 
> website 
> and made it more usable in some techy way that I don't understand. 
> People were raving about how much better it is now.
> 
> 
> >Wa'do Mia,  did you know the syllabary sound chart with Anna's 
> voice 
> >is also on CN website?  Is there another syllabary movie that you 
> >are talking about? 
> >
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >
> >From: Mia Kalish <MiaKalish at LEARNINGFORPEOPLE.US>
> >
> >Date: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 5:45 pm
> >
> >Subject: [ILAT] Immersion multimedia for adult Chiricahua 
> language learners
> >
> >  > Hi, Everyone,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  The results of my Master's research was recently published. I am
> >>  sendingalong the abstract because it might be useful for people
> >>  engaged in
> >>  materials design. I will send the materials to anyone who 
> wants to
> >>  use them
> >>  to rerun the experiment, or just to see how they work. You can
> >>  contact me
> >>  for a pdf copy.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Abstract
> >>
> >>  Study investigated effects of context versus list word
> >>  presentation, and
> >>  moving versus static target presentation in a 2 x 2 between-
> >>  subjects design
> >>  using Athapascan revitalization materials developed in Macromedia
> >>  FlashR for
> >>  adult learning. The within-subjects factor was word type,
> >>  presented in two
> >>  randomized sets of four nouns, adjectives and verbs. Macromedia
> >>  FlashR was
> >>  chosen to simulate immersion learning. Twenty-three Native
> >>  American adults
> >>  from a local reservation and twenty adults from the University
> >>  engaged 48
> >>  words for 15 minutes (average) of self-directed study. Macromedia
> >>  FlashRimmersion test materials presented 3 target choices for each
> >>  of 8 text and 8
> >>  spoken presentations (graphemic and phonemic association tasks),
> >>  and 8 words
> >>  spoken in context (disambiguation task). Populations were similar
> >>  enough to
> >>  be combined; total percent correct was 77.64% (SD = 12.70%; 
> range =
> >>  50-100%). Results indicate that immersion-style, multi-media
> >>  materials offer
> >>  strong support for revitalization efforts, especially where 
> learners>>  outnumber native speakers.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Citation: New Review of Media and Hypermedia, Vo. 11, No. 2,
> >>  December, 2005,
> >>  181-203
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>  Best,
> >>
> >>  Mia
> >>
> >>
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mary S. Linn
> Assistant Curator of Native American Languages
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology
> University of Oklahoma
> 
> Native American Languages, 250G
> Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
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> Norman, Oklahoma 73072-7029
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>