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Setting the stage for Japanese language learning with AVAIL (Audio-Visual Aids Indexed Library)

Knauf, Mark Christopher
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1413371656

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2004, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, East Asian Languages and Literatures.
Pedagogues across all fields of study are in constant search for more effective and efficient ways to help learners establish and reinforce the desired knowledge and skills, and equip the learners with the tools they need to build up and maintain their own frameworks and repertoire of culturally and contextually appropriate responses and behaviors. Unfortunately in the field of second language learning, and, in particular, that of less commonly taught languages, the journey is fraught with intrinsic obstacles. All too often in the quest to develop better teaching materials to help prepare learners for becoming communicative partners in the target cultural environment, educational aids, such as visual aids, wind up receiving perfunctory treatment, at best. AVAIL (Audio-Visual Aids Indexed Library) attempts to fill in some of the holes left in the performance repertoire of the learner, namely, appropriate and natural communicative responses that can be reinforced by strategically sequenced exposure to contextualized, authentic representations of Japan. Through discussions on the cognitive psychology of constructing a world for the learner and establishing the principles behind the creation of a mental representation of that world, this thesis introduces and makes the case for the creation of two types of indexed aids in AVAIL: Prop Visual Aids, which are two-dimensional handheld photographic visual aids used as tools to engage the learners, and Setting Visual Aids, which are photographic backdrops projected on a wall or screen with an overhead projector used to set the stage for communicative performances. By integrating these visual aids into a language program already enriched with cultural contextualization teachers help take learners to yet a higher level in their quest to prepare for living in that new world.
Mari Noda (Advisor)
Charles Quinn (Committee Member)
123 p.
Asian Studies

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  • Knauf, M. C. (2004). Setting the stage for Japanese language learning with AVAIL (Audio-Visual Aids Indexed Library) [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1413371656

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Knauf, Mark. Setting the stage for Japanese language learning with AVAIL (Audio-Visual Aids Indexed Library). 2004. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1413371656.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Knauf, Mark. "Setting the stage for Japanese language learning with AVAIL (Audio-Visual Aids Indexed Library)." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1413371656

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