Audio and audiovisual archives are at the crossroads of different fields of knowledge, yet they require common solutions for both their long-term preservation and their description, availability, use and reuse. Archivio Vi.Vo. is an Italian project financed by the Region of Tuscany, aiming to: (i) explore methods for long-term preservation and secure access to oral sources, and (ii) develop an infrastructure under the CLARIN-IT umbrella offering several services for scholars from different domains interested in oral sources. This paper describes the project's infrastructure and its methodology through a case study on Caterina Bueno's audio archive.
This paper provides a quantitative assessment of Shigeto Kawahara’s phonetics teaching method. A senior high school class from a liceo scientifico in Scandicci (Florence) was involved in a small language awareness program. The students were taught about basic concepts concerning sound symbolism and social meaning through two lessons differing in modality of presentation, i.e., a “standard” lesson vs. a lesson containing multiple Japanese pop examples (Kawahara method). Students attending the latter performed better in an assessment test; moreover, their response accuracy grew along with the number of Japanese pop examples used to explain the related concepts. A statistical interaction between modality of presentation and student attitude towards the Florentine speech variety used to teach during the awareness program was also retrieved: students benefited from Kawahara’s method only when they manifested a positive attitude towards the teacher’s speech variety. Overall, this paper suggests a compact experimental procedure to test for the effectiveness of specific teaching methods in linguistics and beyond. Various strategies for achieving control in teaching experiments are advanced, concerning, among other factors, the evaluation of the individual student’s involvement in acquiring new knowledge, the teacher’s demeanor, and the scoring method. Lastly, future intersections between the scholarship of teaching and learning and sociophonetics are sketched out and promoted. Insegnare il simbolismo sonoro attraverso la cultura pop giapponese. Una risposta A Kawahara (2018) L’articolo esamina quantitativamente l’efficacia del metodo di insegnamento della fonetica di Shigeto Kawahara. Una classe quinta di un liceo scientifico a Scandicci (Firenze) è stata coinvolta in un breve programma di restituzione in seguito a un esperimento linguistico. Agli studenti sono stati insegnati concetti di base relativi al fonosimbolismo e al significato sociale durante due lezioni diverse per stile di presentazione, ovvero una lezione “standard” vs. una lezione con vari esempi presi dalla cultura pop giapponese (metodo Kawahara). Gli studenti che hanno assistito a quest’ultima hanno ottenuto risultati migliori in una successiva prova di valutazione; inoltre, le loro probabilità di rispondere correttamente sono state più alte qualora i concetti fossero stati spiegati con un numero consistente di esempi giapponesi pop. I risultati hanno anche messo in luce un’interazione statistica tra il metodo di insegnamento e l’atteggiamento dimostrato dagli studenti nei confronti della varietà linguistica fiorentina usata dall’insegnante durante le lezioni: il metodo di Kawahara è stato fruttuoso soprattutto per quegli studenti con atteggiamento positivo nei confronti della varietà dell’insegnante. In generale, l’articolo propone un protocollo sperimentale compatto per esaminare l’efficacia di metodi d’insegnamento in linguistica e oltre. Vengono inoltre suggerite varie strategie per ottenere controllo sperimentale nelle ricerche didattiche (quantificazione del coinvolgimento degli studenti nell’acquisizione di nuove conoscenze; comportamento e aspetto del docente; metodo di assegnazione di punteggi). L’articolo promuove infine future possibili intersezioni disciplinari tra la ricerca sulla didattica e la sociofonetica.
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