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ItemNo Preview AvailableEspañol down under: Spanish for Australia and New Zealand(Council of Australian University Librarians Open Educational Resources Collective; Deakin University, 2023)This book focuses on a hands-on, student-centric approach to learning Spanish. Designed for the Australian and New Zealand environment for use at Deakin University, currently available is foundation level content, suitable for a first introduction to Spanish speaking. The resource is still in development with additional content progressing to more advanced skill levels currently under development.
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ItemWambaya, Gudanji, Binbinka and Ngarnka Plants and Animals: Aboriginal biocultural knowledge from Gulf of Carpentaria and the Barkly Tablelands, north Australia.(Tennant Creek: Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security & Papulu Apparr-kari Aboriginal Corporation, 2021)
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ItemNew Media in Language Assessments(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013)New media and technologies, including digital videos, wikis, and podcasts, are now the cornerstones of innovative second and foreign language programs, yet their integration into classroom assessment and test development continues to lag. For language assessment specialists, the global increase in the frequency and sophistication of technology use demands a proactive response to a range of fundamental considerations. After establishing the foundations of test task design, this chapter looks at emerging trends in the use of educational technologies that include social networking, functional convergence, and wireless mobility. The chapter then turns to issues in the use of new technologies within the context of classroom assessment, with regard to institutional resources, professional development, and educational policies. A third section shifts the focus to language test development to consider construct definitions, test practicality and security, and the potential for washback in language education. The conclusion proposes an agenda to spur the development and integration of new technologies into test task design.
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ItemTechnology and Second Language Listening(Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd., 2020-01-01)For millennia, humans have used all of their senses to understand their environment and to communicate through touch, sight, smell, taste, and hearing. The increasing use of technology, particularly from the Industrial Age to the present, has focused ever greater attention to the concept of “listening.” Stethoscopes, for example, were invented through a realization that the body could express symptoms through sound, and it took nearly a century of socialization for audiences to learn to “listen” in silence during musical performances (Hendy 2013). Technology, then, forged a “new type of listening” that accelerated with the invention of audio recording and the telephone in the late nineteenth century. Listening became a distinct skill that needed its own pedagogy and materials, and educators soon began to stress the need for attentive listening to master difficult concepts. By the turn of the twentieth century, audio recordings were introduced to...
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ItemTask and Performance-Based Assessment(Springer International Publishing, 2016)
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ItemThe lexicography of indigenous languages in Australia and the Pacific(Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2015)