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Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My adventures in teaching French began when, by chance, I replaced another instructor in a French language course at Carleton in 1982. I became fascinated by language learning and all that it entails, changed my career plans entirely and have continued to explore language learning in various settings. I am particularly interested in the integration of new technologies in language learning and their role in promoting learner independence and autonomy. Among other things, this led to my leading the VideoTech project, as well as becoming one of the co-investigators in the Technitude\u00a9 research project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born in New York, I went to school in New Delhi (Mater Dei Convent 1962-64), Tunis (ACST, 1964-68), and Geneva (Ecolint, 1968-74) before moving to Kingtson, ON (Frontenac SS, 1974-75) and finally to Ottawa (Carleton University, B.A. Honours in French and Spanish). I then went on to complete my Masters at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My mother tongue is Tamil, French was chronologically my fourth language, I have four children. I love languages, dogs, winter, singing, downhill skiing, and talking about language teaching and pedagogy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Current Projects:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vid\u00e9oTech<\/em><\/strong> (<\/strong>www.video-tech.ca<\/strong><\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vid\u00e9oTech is a free, open-source project for the collaborative development of multimedia video content for language teaching and learning.  It is an open educational resource with an online repository of authentic language videos, transcripts, language learning exercises and the tools to create them.  Once teachers create an activity, they can share the resulting lesson worldwide to help others teach and learn languages.  In addition to accessing videos and activities online, teachers can also download, remix, edit, and adapt these materials for their distinct educational purposes. Originally created for French as a second language, Video-Tech is now expanding to include other languages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vid\u00e9oTech was developed by Nandini Sarma (Carleton University), H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Knoerr (University of Ottawa), Patrick Lyons and Matthew DiGiuseppe (both with EDC, Carleton University). The project was funded by Inukshuk Wireless and has the ongoing support of the Educational Development Centre of Carleton University. Vid\u00e9oTech is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research Interests<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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  • Virtual communities (eg. AvayaLive, Second Life, video games, video-conferencing, blogs, fora,…) and language learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Open educational resources and communities of practice in language teaching and learning (eg. Vid\u00e9oTech, ISL collective…)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Second language reading acquisition: teaching methods, evaluation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Self-instruction, distance education, online learning<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • French colonization in Pondichery, history and perspectives; translation of the Rangapillai diaries written in Tamil in 1753<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    2015    Knoerr, H., Sarma, N. Utiliser des documents vid\u00e9os authentiques \u00e0 tous les niveaux : possible et facile!. Reflets du 34e congr\u00e8s de l’AQEFLS<\/em>, Vol. 32, n\u00b0 5, 2015<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2012    Peters, M., Weinberg, A., Sarma, N. Les \u00e9tudiants ont la parole : typologie des caract\u00e9ristiques des activit\u00e9s technologiques de langue. Revue canadienne de linguistique appliqu\u00e9e<\/em>. Vol. 15, No. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2011    Peters, M., Weinberg, A., Sarma, N., Frankoff, M. \u201cFrom the Mouths of Canadian University Students: Web-based Information-seeking Activities for Language Learning\u201d. Calico Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2009    Sarma, N., Weinberg, A., Peters, M. \u201cCliquer, glisser, dactylographier ou s\u00e9lectionner dans un menu d\u00e9roulant : manipulations pr\u00e9f\u00e9r\u00e9es des \u00e9tudiants universitaires\u201d. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, Vol. 35, No. 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2009    Peters, M., Weinberg, A., Sarma, N.  \u201cTo like or not to like! Students\u2019 Perceptions toward Technological Activities for Learning French as a Second Language at Five Canadian Universities\u201d. Canadian Modern Language Review, Vol. 65, No 2.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    2005    Weinberg, A., Peters, M., Sarma, N. \u201cPr\u00e9f\u00e9rences des apprenants face \u00e0 l\u2019utilisation de la technologie dans l\u2019apprentissage des langues\u201d. Revue canadienne de linguistique appliqu\u00e9e, Vol.8, no 2, pp. 211-231.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Awards\/Honours<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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    2011<\/td>Carleton University Teaching Achievement Award (15,000$)<\/td><\/tr>
    2002-2003<\/td> Professional Achievement Award (1,500$)<\/td><\/tr>
    2001<\/td> CUSA Teaching Excellence Award (Priceless J – it is awarded by students!)<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

    GRANTS RECEIVED: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    2008<\/td>$87,000 : Inukshuk Wireless. Jan 2008 \u2013 June 2010.  Project title: Vid<\/em>\u00e9<\/em>otech<\/em>. Principal grant holder: Nandini Sarma. Project team members: H. Knoerr, (U.Ottawa). Patrick Lyons ( Carleton University), Matthew diGiuseppe (Carleton University).<\/td><\/tr>
    2006-2007<\/td>$43,903 (2006-2007): SSHRC – Official Languages Research and Dissemination Program. April 2006-July 2007. Project title: Activit\u00e9s technologiques et perceptions d\u2019\u00e9tudiants universitaires de fran\u00e7ais langue seconde<\/em>. Principal grant holder: M. Peters, UQAM, co-investigator: A.Weinberg, U. Ottawa.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":3244,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Nandini","cu_people_last_name":"Sarma","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[40],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-330","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-professor-emeritus"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"","cu_people_degree":"B.A. Honours French & Spanish (Carleton University); M.A. Linguistics (Montreal)","cu_building":"","cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"nandini.sarma@carleton.ca","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10117,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/330\/revisions\/10117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/french\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}