1999 ~FASTTex projects
Middle Eastern Studies

Title:
Ear Training for Beginning Hebrew Language Students

Faculty Adviser:
Esther Raizen

Student:
Sheila Warren

Project Description:
Ear-training, a pedagogical concept borrowed from music education, is essentail to the development of listening skills which are the key to sucessful communicationi a language. These online tutorials will be based on error-detection and will provide helpful hints as well as immediate feedback on correct and incorrect answers. They will be use with first-year Hebrew students, and will be susequently expanded to present more complex discourse units, suitable for more advanced students.

These tutorials are an expansion of an intital set designed for letter/word recognition practice, which is available at the Hebrew Language web site. The site is open to general use, and has gained quick recognition among Hebrew instructors all over the US.