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CALScribe: a multimedia template ideal for CALL development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Sally-Ann Kitts  and
Kim Whittlestone
Sally-Ann Kitts
Affiliation:
University of Bristol
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In spite of the increasing availability of highquality CALL material, it is a fact upported by Laurillard et al.'s (1993) survey of academics' use of courseware materials that many lecturers in higher education are more often put off rather than attracted by the completeness of the material available. They would prefer to have more control over both the orm and content of the CALL material they intro-duce into their own courses, courses hich are usually of their own design, sometimes based on research interests and which ave evolved from several years' refinement and fine tuning. The recent appearance of pecialised authoring templates such as The Poetry Shell (Timbrell 1994), designed for tudying poems of up to 20,000 characters in length, and several authorable products from he TELL Consortium including an authoring shell for the translation package Translt-TIGER (Thompson et al 1997), seems to indicate a continuing, if not expanding role for institution-based CAL development.

Type
Research Article
Information
ReCALL , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , November 1998 , pp. 4 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1998

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