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FL-IDE: hypertext for structuring a conceptual design for computer-assisted language learning

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A compelling problem for language pedagogues is teaching foreign languages to students so they can retain and use the language skills in real communicative situations. One way to help students learn these skills is to understand and improve current pedagogical approaches to language learning. New technology such as Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) provides pedagogues with rich, multimedia environments for presenting instruction. At the same time, deciding what to present and how to organize the instruction in CALL provides a new challenge. In response to this problem, we discuss preliminary results of a research effort for developing an instructional design environment (IDE) that is uniquely tailored to the needs of developing foreign language instruction. Hypertext features in the IDE software are used to capture and organize into one coherent framework the corpora of theoretical, instructional, and content material that affects foreign language instruction.

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  1. U.S. Army Research Institute, 5001 Eisenhower Avenue, 22333-5600, Alexandria, VA, U.S.A.

    Merryanna L. Swartz

  2. Xerox PARC, 3333 Coyote Hill Road, 94304, Palo Alto, CA, U.S.A.

    Daniel M. Russell

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Swartz, M.L., Russell, D.M. FL-IDE: hypertext for structuring a conceptual design for computer-assisted language learning. Instr Sci 18, 5–26 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00121217

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