The reading is about how to develop and create a multimedia courseware to conduct langugage lessons. The project was carried out in the early 1990s, which is about 20 years ago. In terms of the equipments just like the laserdisc player and the Truvision Bravado Board, the project seems not updated. However, the experience learnt from the project and the idea it based on is the thing that we have to treasure.
Generally speaking, teachers are more well-trained and experienced in using IT in teaching. In the article, the author mentioned that the research require a vast amount of manpower. Nowadays, with the help of the development of user-friendly softwares and teachers' being familiar with IT, similar teaching strategies can be employed with ease.
I think the objectives behind the project, ie,"develop reading comprehension skills with the help of viewing video, develop active use of the language by learning to imitate speech acts, develop speaking skills in English by imitating pronunciation, stress, and intonation as well as extra linguistic components, bring the learner as close as possible to a real conversational situationm and provide the learner with enough tools so that he or she can understand the conversation, expose the learner to the culture of the language and encourage students to becaome active listeners, gussers, predictors, and risk takers," are still worth working on.
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Thanks for the reflection. These days, designers would probably use a browser and internet connection rather than interactive video disc. I agree that while the technology has moved on a lot since this article was written, the basic aims are still worth pursuing today.
ReplyDeletei particularly like the design of the lessons and the idea of making use of scripts. We can further update and develop it with the help of software like hotpotatoes
ReplyDeleteThank you for your sharing of teaching planning we can see lots of pros in using CALL in our teaching, but sometimes things could be very frustrated coz we may have a blackout or the computer just refuses to work. Anyway, the prepartion of before the class is definitly important.
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