Stephen Tschudi

(né Stephen Fleming)
Instructor in Technology for Foreign Language Education

University of Hawai`i at Manoa

Key responsibilities
Developing distance education applications for Chinese language at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels; teaching Chinese language via distributed media; coordinating the offering of distance language courses at the University of Hawaii; developing Chinese language educational materials; disseminating models of effective pedagogy for foreign languages via distance education.

Current Classes

CHN 102.5

A special section of the second semester of Mandarin Chinese, taught via an array of distributed media, namely: independent study materials such as books and CD-ROMs; the World Wide Web; and live, local tutoring in each location where the course is offered -- in the first semester, at UH Manoa in Honolulu and at Dillard University in New Orleans. More details of the model are described in "Distance Education to Distributed Learning: Multiple Formats and Technologies in Language Instruction" in CALICO Journal (22) 1, p. 63-82, September, 2004.

CHN 202.5

A special section of the fourth semester of Mandarin Chinese, analogous to CHN 102.5 above, but with only one cohort of students at the University of Hawaii.

Online courses at the advanced level in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean

 

These Web-based courses, available both to Manoa students and to Outreach College extension students, strengthen reading and writing skills at the Intermediate-High to Advanced level. (One course also has a listening component.) for more information, visit the link above.

Employee Information

Projects

• I am currently teaching beginning Chinese via distributed media while piloting the subsequent intermediate course. Texts for both these courses were authored by Cynthia Ning. (Her first-year book may be seen here.)
• I just finished work on a grant project, "Disseminating Technology-Based Models for Distance Education in Critical Languages," which is summarized in the first two chapters of Carol Anne Spreen's New Technologies and Language Learning: Cases in the less commonly taught languages, available as a book or in PDF format at the NFLRC publications Web site -- search on author 'Spreen'.
• In July 1997 I was chief instructor for the NFLRC 1997 Summer Institute Workshop in Tools & Techniques for Foreign Language Instruction via Interactive Television.
• I composed a Web site with information about the same topic, Foreign Language Instruction via Interactive Television
• I have also assisted other instructors in LLL to develop interactive television-based courses: Hawaiian 470, taught by Makalapua Ka'awa; Chinese 101, taught by CHEN Zhen; and Tagalog 101, taught by Ruth Mabanglo. I have also provided support for the development of Web-based courses for our college in Japanese, Korean, Thai, Khmer (Cambodian), Tagalog, Ilokano, and Indonesian.

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Previous Classes

CHN 201

The third semester of Mandarin Chinese, taught via the Hawai`i Interactive Television System, operated by the Office of Distributed Learning & User Services.

ESL 418

Instructional Media: integrating technology into the language curriculum and classroom.

Contact Information

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