CAILS: Central Asian Interactive Listening Series
The University of Wisconsin-Madison has received a three-year (2006-09) grant from the U.S. Department of Education to support CAILS, the Central Asian Advanced Interactive Listening Series, a project directed by Uli Schamiloglu, Department of Languages and Cultures of Asia, to develop a series of 20 online listening comprehension and culture lessons targeting advanced level listening proficiency in Kazakh and Uzbek. The lessons are based on video clips of interviews conducted in the target languages, both in-country and in the United States, and cover topics such as history, literature, culture, politics, education, and economics. The project is unique in providing cross-language training for students with intermediate proficiency in Kazak, Uzbek, or other Turkic languages to develop advanced-level listening comprehension proficiency in Kazak or Uzbek without having to begin a four-skills language course in that language from the first semester.
The CAILS project builds upon, and extends, the work of other successful materials development projects in advanced-level listening comprehension and technology at the UW-Madison: RAILS: Russian Advanced Interactive Listening Series directed by Benjamin Rifkin, and Utamaduni Online: An Advanced Level Course in Swahili Language and Culture, directed by Magdalena Hauner.
Reviewers Needed!
We are pleased to announce that two CAILS lessons are available for review. Please see the CAILS website for more details.
People
Director: Uli Schamiloglu
Associate Director: Talant Mawkanuli
Project Consultant: Dianna Murphy
Graduate Project Assistant: David Dettmann
Project Coordinator:Wendy Johnson
Advisory Board
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