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Dalgish, Gerard M. – 1984
This review focuses on microcomputer software designed to improve the writing skills of students of English as a Second Language (ESL) at the college level. It presents a case for the use of computers in teaching ESL, provides guidelines and suggestions for evaluating or creating software and programs, and reviews representative software,…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, English (Second Language), Evaluation Criteria
Abercrombie, John R. – Perspectives in Computing: Applications in the Academic and Scientific Community, 1987
Describes Graphics Project for Foreign Language Learning at the University of Pennsylvania, which has developed ways of displaying foreign scripts on microcomputers. Character design on computer screens is explained; software for graphics, printing, and language instruction is discussed; and a text editor is described that corrects optically…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Graphics, Computer Software
Hart, Robert S. – IDEAL, 1987
A discussion of computer-based language instruction examines the quality of materials currently in use and looks at developments in the field. It is found that language courseware is generally weak in the areas of error analysis and feedback, communicative realism, and convenience of lesson authoring. A review of research under way to improve…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Authoring Aids (Programing), Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction
