Thursday, May 20
3:15 PM-4:15 PM
UTC
Butterworth 2

Producing Language Learning Software with revMedia

Brief Paper ID: 28798
  1. Steven Tripp
    University of Aizu

Abstract: This paper will introduce users to creating educational software products with the newly-released, free revMedia environment and the revTalk scripting language. The scripting language is especially suited to handling and processing language data. Users can convert revMedia applications into revlets, WWW-enabled programs with virtually one click.

Objectives

Topic Objectives Getting started with revMedia Creating objects Understanding object properties Adding revTalk scripts to objects Understanding the message hierarchy Understanding graphic effects Understanding simple data input and output Understanding seven basic programming concepts Dealing with external data Publishing to the Web --- This is a sample revTalk script: Put “Did you arrange for her to speak to him about the meeting.” into x Put “Mary” into word 5 of x Put space&”yesterday”after character -2 of x Answer x with “yes” or “no” or “maybe” If it is “no” then put “You are in trouble.” into field “Warning” ---

Topical Outline

The presenter is especially interested in language corpus analysis and applications of corpus data to language teaching and learning. Some issues to be addressed will be: 1. Counting words (or lemmas) in a corpus 2. Deleting unwanted noisy data in a corpus 3. Counting words is a tagged corpus 4. Linking data from different sources 5. Tagging language data in various ways 6. Presenting language data to students 7. Dealing with two-byte Unicode data (Japanese and Chinese) 8. Adding or generating audio data 9. Getting students to contribute to learning resources 10. Generating many (100s) of WebPages almost instantly.

Prerequisites

The audience should have a professional understanding of language teaching issues and a desire to use computers and the WWW for language teaching. No programming knowledge is required, but potential participants are encouraged to download revMedia, play with it to familiarize themselves, and bring a laptop with revMedia installed. With this technology and a little imagination, teachers and students can produce online educational materials almost from day one. Some sample revMedia stacks can be downloaded from http;//compass.u-aizu.ac.jp/stax/

Experience Level

Intermediate

Qualifications

The presenter is a professor of English at a Japanese university and has been teaching English for 40 years and working with revMedia (and its predecessors) for 20 years. He has used it to analyze language data for ESP (Computer Science) and integrate a very large mySQL database of language data with a browser-based interface. http://compass.u-aizu.ac.jp/verbframe.html http://compass.u-aizu.ac.jp/avlAlpha.html
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