Provides a description of the Nuevos Destinos CD-ROM, a joint production for students learning Spanish at the advanced-beginning, intermediate-low, or native-speaker level. Nuevos Destinos involves students in meaningful ways by asking them to solve real-world problems encountered in law offices. (Author/VWL)

Proposes a framework for computer assisted language learning that takes the target interaction as its starting point. To ascertain the practical usefulness of the framework, classroom research was carried out and the interaction was evaluated. (33 references) (CK)