Multimedia in Language Instruction

Incorporating Live Action into the CALL Lab

“…In response to these limitations, we have tried to give students la rge amounts of practice under motivating conditions with contextual ized language. Underlying some of the more imaginative aspects of our program, such as drag-and-drop video and driving a car simulation, is plenty of repetition, although we have tried not to all these to be the sa me old decontextualized drills that Roche ( 1999) laments. If getting the right answer is what computers do best, at least along the way we have made them respond to the students' wishes and needs.…”

“…However, as pointed out by Roche (1999) many language learning CDs either are dominated by an audio-lingual or grammar-translation mentality, perhaps formed by the assumptions and prejudices of programmers, or are confined by the limitations of the computer medium itself. Internet-based language learning Websites suffer from similar failings.…”