CALL: Media, Design & Applications

Part 1 Media: the shape of computer-mediated communication; user-driven development and content-driven research; authoring and the academic linguist - the challenge of multimedia CALL. Part 2 Design: design processes in CALL - integrating theory, research and evaluation; evaluating performance, approach and outcome; computer-supported language tasks. Part 3 CALL applications: speech recognition in computer-assisted language learning; more intelligent CALL; grammar checking for CALL - strategies for improving foreign-language grammar checkers; visual grammar - multimedia for grammar, spelling and writing; corpora, language and literature; the missing link in computer-assisted writing. Epilogue: is your CALL connected? dedicated software versus integrated CALL.