ous new dimension to our work of supporting language
teachers in their use of technology in teaching."
How about the future? "I suspect that for some time to come, the use of
internet-related activities for languages will continue to develop
alongside other technology-related activities (e.g. use of CD-ROMs --
not all institutions have enough networked hardware). In the future I
can envisage use of internet playing a much larger part, but only if
such activities are pedagogy-driven. Our organization is closely
associated with the WELL project which devotes itself to these issues."
The WELL (Web Enhanced Language Learning) project was a project from
EUROCALL (European Association for Computer-Assisted Language
Learning). It ran from 1997 to 2000 in the United Kingdom to provide
access to high-quality web resources in 12 languages. The resources
were selected and described by subject experts, with information and
examples on how to use them for teaching and learning.
More generally, EUROCALL's goal is to promote the use of foreign
languages within Europe, to provide a European focus for all aspects of
the use of technology for language learning, and to enhance the
quality, dissemination and efficiency of CALL materials. Another
project of EUROCALL is CAPITAL (Computer-Assisted Pronunciation
Investigation Teaching and Learning), run by a group of researchers and
practitioners interested in using computers in this field.
= LINGUIST List
The LINGUIST List was founded by Anthony Rodriques Aristar in 1990 at
the University of Western Australia, with 60 subscribers, before
moving from Australia to Texas A&M University in 1991. In 1997, emails
sent to the distribution list were also available on the list's own
website, in the following sections: the profession (conferences,
linguistic associations, programs), research and research support
(papers, dissertation abstracts, projects, bibliographies, topics,
texts), publications, pedagogy, language resources (languages, language
families, dictionaries, regional information), and computer support
(fonts and software). The LINGUIST List is a component of the WWW
Virtual Library for linguistics.
Helen Dry, moderator of the LINGUIST List, wrote in August 1998: "The
LINGUIST List, which I moderate, has a policy of posting in any
language, since it's a list for linguists. However, we discourage
posting the same message in several languages, simply because of the
burden ext
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