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Bradley, Linda, Ed.; Thouësny, Sylvie, Ed. – Research-publishing.net, 2013
EUROCALL 2013's theme was "20 Years of EUROCALL: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future." The conference seeked to establish an overview of EUROCALL's twentieth anniversary. As a professional organization, EUROCALL has been aiming, along its 20 years of existence, to promote innovative research, development and practice in the…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Herron, Carol; Dubreil, Sebastien; Cole, Steven P.; Corrie, Cathleen – CALICO Journal, 2000
Examines whether foreign language students learn cultural information embedded in videos. Fifty beginning French students viewed eight targeted videos as part of their multimedia-based curriculum. A pretest and posttest assessed long-term gains in overall cultural knowledge and in the learning of little "c" culture (practices) and Big "c" culture…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Cultural Awareness, French
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Borras, Isabel; Lafayette, Robert C. – Modern Language Journal, 1994
The effects of subtitling during transactional task practice were investigated among fifth-semester college students of French. Results support and advance the knowledge generated by language research on subtitles: subtitles help learners not only to comprehend authentic linguistic input better but also to produce comprehensible communicative…
Descriptors: College Students, Courseware, French, Higher Education
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Borras, Isabel – Educational Technology, Research and Development, 1993
Reports on the development and evaluation of "Practicing Spoken French," a multimedia HyperCard-based program designed to assess the effects of subtitled video on oral communicative performance of undergraduate students of French. Implications for computer-assisted language learning design and research are suggested. (Contains 31…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software Development, Computer Software Evaluation, Courseware
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Burston, Jack – CALICO Journal, 1998
Describes the challenges faced and solutions adopted in adapting the multimedia-rich "Varietes de francais" CD-ROM program to operate on the World Wide Web. The program runs locally to retrieve media resources, perform intelligent answer processing and data collection, and turns to the Web only when necessary for data transfer, external Web links,…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Courseware
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Kramsch, Claire; And Others – CALICO Journal, 1985
Details the current status, the future plans and the reasoning behind a five-year, campus-wide educational experiment for the integration of computers into the foreign language curriculum at MIT. The project is to use artificial intelligence in natural processing and to include interactive video and interactive audio components. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware
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Renie, Delphine – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1998
Evaluation of French second-language learning among college and adult students with videodisk "Vi-Conte" found: beginners adopted less linear paths than adults or more advanced students; lexical acquisition varied by proficiency level; frequency, salience, mode of presentation of lexical items in a multimedia environment affected acquisition;…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Age Differences, Computer Software Development, Courseware