ARGUMENTS POUR UNE PRODUCTION TÉLÉVISUELLE À L’UNIVERSITÉ: UNE APPROCHE DES LANGUES ÉTRANGÈRES DANS L’ENSEIGNEMENT SUPÉRIEUR ILLUSTRÉE PAR DES FILMS EN ALLEMAND ET EN FRANÇAIS
Television plays an important role in teaching as well as in research of two departments at Saarland University: the Romance language department and the department of information sciences. Thus, the two department have developed a joint "University television project", historically the very first in Germany that broadcasts regularly in the context of a television station that covers an entire federal state within Germany. This paper presents the history, the goals and the types of emissions we broadcast. We have different approaches: one is the production of students that for example try to improve their intercultural and their language skills and deals with how to present information the most succesful way possible. The experiences inside and outside of the university are described.
Formale Charakteristika von Audiovisionssegmenten im multimedialen Umfeld
Die zunehmende Bedeutung von Bewegtbild auch im Umfeld multimedialer, computergebundener Angebote legt einen Vergleich mit den Angeboten der anderen Bewegtbildmedien, also des Kinos und des Fernsehens, nahe. Eine empirische Untersuchung lasst deutlich werden, dass die unterschiedlichen Rahmenbedingungen auch die Art und Weise verandern, wie die Filme wirken. Daher muss das semiotische Verhaltnis von Bedeutendem und Bedeutung bei der Produktion von Bewegtbildmedien in unterschiedlichen Kontexten jeweils mitberucksichtigt werden. Es mussen offenbar vor allem formale Unterschiede in der Gestaltung wie auch der inhaltlichen Darstellung berucksichtigt werden. Die Unterschiede beziehen sich auf formale Aspekte wie die Filmlange, auf die Bildgestaltung und das Schnitt-Tempo wie auch auf Probleme der Dramaturgie. Sie sind so deutlich, dass gar von einer historischen Entwicklung gesprochen werden muss, die sich in Gegensatzpaaren konstituiert. The increasing importance of time-based media in the context of computer-based, i.e. multimedia productions seems to urge research on the differences with other time-based media, cinema and television. Empirical research proves that the different channels also change the way of how those time-based media influence the user. Producing time-based media, therefore, has to be different in relation to the medium chosen, as each media changes the semiotic relationship between sign and significance, and therefore changes the necessities of how to produce and how to present the content. Differences can be found regarding the film length, the design, the speed of editing, and the dramaturgy. They seem to be quite contrasting and to represent a historic process.
The Effect of Summarizing Strategy on Reading Comprehension of Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners
Reading comprehension plays a significant role in educational success. In spite of its importance, students still have difficulties in understanding texts. One solution to the problem of poor reading comprehension is the learning of reading strategies. The current study examined the effect of summarizing strategy on reading comprehension of Iranian intermediate EFL learners. Sixty-one students were selected and randomly divided into two control and experimental groups. The homogeneity of their proficiency level was established using a TOEFL proficiency test. All students in both groups participated in a reading comprehension test as pretest. The experimental group utilized summarizing strategy three times a week typically 45 minutes in duration for ten weeks. After each two week instruction, an immediate posttest was administered. At the end of the treatment, a post-test was administered to both groups. The findings of the study indicated that summarizing strategy has a significant effect on learners’ reading comprehension.