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Hello!  Welcome to the front webpage of the Chennai-Philadelphia videoconference (with live webcast) project!  These videoconferences were held on 16 Oct. 2004, and 15 Oct. 2005.

This project explores how aspects of children's Tamil (and other) songs-chants-dances-games may be used to teach and learn languages in videoconferences.

These events will provide data for my dissertation, "South Indian Children's Songs-chants-dances-games, Language Learning, and Videoconferencing" (Folklore Program, University of Pennsylvania).


1
Click here for the program webpage for the Oct. 15, 2005, videoconference.

2
Click here for the thoughts webpage -- about both videoconferences.

3
Click here for texts and recordings webpage -- links to the words, and video recordings, of each of the individual 14 songs-chants-dances-games, as performed in the village.

4 
Click here for a video recording of the 14 songs-chants-dances-games, as performed in the village (12 min.).

Many thanks!

- Eric 
  emiller@sas.upenn.edu
 



Readings:

a)  An article about the Oct. 2004 webcasted-videoconference.

b)  An article about videoconferencing, and teaching and learning spoken Tamil language.

c)  An article about videoconferencing, teaching and learning any spoken language, and children's play.

d)  A paper about the Kani tribal people of Tamil Nadu and Kerala (pdf file).  (Kani children from Tamil Nadu's Kanyakumari District -- along with other Tamil children in a Chennai school -- are helping to demonstrate the songs-chants-dances-games from the Chennai side of the Chennai-Philadelphia videoconferences.)

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Last updated: July 2007.