Position the language teacher as diagnostician, prescriber, motivator, and evaluator of student production¶

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Description¶

The article argues that interactive video cannot evaluate students' productions, so teachers should project how their roles can change and become more professional. The instructor is described as the only evaluator capable of judging student production in terms of accuracy, intonation, emphasis, meaning, and appropriateness in context, while the technology provides definitions, cultural information, and simulated conversations tirelessly and positively. Professional language instructors using interactive video in concert with other approaches can look forward to acting as professional diagnostician and prescriber, motivator, and evaluator, directing the total learning environment like a physician relying on technology and assistants.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• The teacher must have knowledge of the total process of learning and be responsible for how specific technological tools integrate into an overall plan.

Constraints¶

• The article states the biggest weakness of interactive video-disc technology is that it cannot evaluate students' productions.

Target Learners¶

• language teachers and instructors

Target Learning Goals¶

• professional diagnosis and prescription of language skill improvement
• evaluation of student language production

Related Strategies¶

• Adapt existing footage for branching simulation practice rather than only annotating it
• Four teacher roles for regulating the transfer of learning functions: diagnostician, challenger, model learner, activator

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Gale, Larrie E.; Brown, Bruce L. (1985). A Theory of Learning and Skill-Acquisition Applied to Interactive Video: Activities at the David O. McKay Institute, Brigham Young University. In Gillespie, Junetta B., Ed. Video and Second Language Learning. Urbana, Language Learning Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED278252