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Peer reviewedConrad, K. Bernd – Annual Review of Applied Linguistics, 1996
Reviews literature on second-language instruction to determine the rationale for the design and implementation of computer software in the field. Findings indicate a need for more software that engages learners in communicative task-based activities and is based on current learning theory. (118 references) (CK)
Descriptors: Communicative Competence (Languages), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication, Computer Software
Download full textTakala, Sauli – 1994
One of the main aims of the Teaching Content in a Foreign Language (TCFL) program, an in-service teacher training program at the Continuing Education Centre of the University of Jyvaskyla (Finland), was to improve the participants' proficiency in English. To promote this objective, English was made the operating language for the whole program.…
Descriptors: Course Content, Course Objectives, English (Second Language), Foreign Countries
