Many Japanese museums and other cultural institutions have been exploring ways to enrich visitors' experiences using new digital devices. This paper briefly describes some examples in Japan, ranging from a PDA, a mobile phone, podcasting, and an audio guide speaker-equipped vest to a Quick Response (QR) code on a brochure for downloading a short…

This paper investigates the relationship between the phonological features of tone and tone perception in Thai. Specifically, it tests the hypothesis (proposed by Moren & Zsiga, 2006) that the principle perceptual cues to the five-way tonal contrast in Thai are high and low pitch targets aligned to moras. Results of four perception studies, one…

A SEQUENCE OF STEPS FOR ESTABLISHING LANGUAGE LABORATORIES ARE DELINEATED IN THIS REVISED PAPER. THE ORIGINAL PAPER WAS PRESENTED TO THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK CITY ON THE "LANGUAGE LABORATORY IN HIGH SCHOOLS" (OCTOBER 1960). INCORPORATED IN THE REVISED PAPER ARE MANY SUGGESTIONS MADE BY THE CONFEREES,…

A manufacturer discusses some high fidelity equipment, with particular emphasis on their use in schools.'' (Author/AK)

The author describes how to make a simple, inexpensive alarm for multi-channel monitoring. (Editor/AK)

Some techniques and equipment that help improve audio quality. (Author)

What equipment capability is necessary for good TV audio. (Author)

Describes the development of five perceptual audio coders to measure small audible differences in the audio engineering field. The Rasch model offers a way to control statistical analysis of experimental data so as to maximize reproducibility and applicability across conditions and listeners. (SLD)

The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, part of the Library of Congress, historically has been the major supplier of recreational talking books for U.S. citizens with print impairments. It has announced that its digital talking book program will begin in late 2008. The Canadian National Institute for the Blind…

According to recent media reports, MP3 players are one of the hottest gift item these days, particularly for adolescents. The broad success of these devices, however, has revealed flaws in the designers' noninclusive thinking. The accessibility challenges for these players are similar to those for other portable electronic gadgets, such as PDAs…

For arts departments in many institutions, technology education entails prohibitive equipment costs, maintenance requirements and administrative demands. There are also inherent pedagogical challenges: for example, recording studio classes where, due to space and time constraints, only a few students in what might be a large class can properly…

Parental involvement (broadly defined as including both natural parents and other significant adults) has been consistently shown to produce positive results in students' literacy achievement, and there is widespread agreement among parents and school personnel about the value of parental involvement in education. However, educators do not…

The 2008 CASAS "Bibliography of Citizenship Materials" lists available instructional resources for citizenship education. It focuses on materials appropriate for preparing people for the naturalization process and the standardized citizenship examination. Resources include textbooks, audio materials, software and Videos/DVDs. The bibliography also…

This paper aims to enhance our understanding of interactions between French/English Foreign Language Assistants (FLAs) and their school mentors (MEs), and, more specifically, of how "advice" is sought, given and received. More generally, it will articulate a pragmatic approach (employing the notion of "activity type") that can…

Purpose: To determine whether measures of stuttering frequency and measures of overall stuttering severity in preschoolers differ when made from audio-only recordings compared with audiovisual recordings. Method: Four blinded speech-language pathologists who had extensive experience with preschoolers who stutter measured stuttering frequency and…