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Download full textMitschian, Haymo – 1994
To use computers as a medium to learn a language, there is need for some GUI-elements indicating and regulating the actual status of training. These elements have to be separated into obligatory ones, useful in almost all CALL-software, and facultative ones, necessary for most "teachware." Due to a general need of reducing the difficulties to get…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, German, Languages for Special Purposes
Peer reviewedDodigovic, Marina – CALICO Journal, 1993
The properties of German as a special language of mechanical engineering are examined on the basis of a newly compiled corpus including samples from all important disciplines and discourse styles. The syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of passive voice are the chief research goal. (Contains five references.) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Courseware, Engineering Education
Cothran, Bettina F. – 1993
This paper discusses the Georgia Institute of Technology's Business German summer language course, an intensive 6-week course that utilizes classroom instruction, language labs, and computer labs. The course stresses vocabulary and discourse as commonly used in the professional context, as well as intercultural information. A major component of…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Class Activities, Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Descriptions
Peer reviewedDlaska, A. – System, 1999
Based on a language-needs analysis for students in a German for engineering course, this article argues that teaching languages for special purposes needs to consider the subject-specific needs of specialists in a given field. It proposes that LSP courses need to be skill oriented and learner centered and should emphasize the role of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Engineering Education, German, Independent Study
Peer reviewedGrandin, John M. – Unterrichtspraxis, 1986
Discusses how to overcome the hurdles of teaching the special language style found in German business correspondence and describes a new approach to teaching business German that uses a computerized support system. (SED)
Descriptors: Business Correspondence, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware
Voght, Geoffrey M., Comp. – 1985
The proceedings of this conference include 56 papers on program design, classroom techniques, and ideas for second language instruction for business and the professions. The papers are presented in eight groups: (1) "International Business: The Language and Culture Connection," which includes papers on multinational business, marketing,…
Descriptors: Banking, Business Administration Education, Classroom Techniques, College Second Language Programs
Smith, Wm. Flint, Ed. – 1991
This book, the second of two volumes devoted to instructional media in second language instruction, focuses on specific applications of advanced technology in the classroom. The first part, "Applications," contains seven chapters. They are: "The Language Laboratory in the Computer Age" (S. E. K. Otto); "Television…
Descriptors: Chinese, Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software
