I think the time when this article written and the project done was around 90s'. However, judging from the CALL technology at that time, the design of the IVD courseware was quite innovative, attractive and successful. Learners could flexibly change the options of subtitles and make reference to explanations of vocabulary and idioms easily and quickly without the need to look them up in dictionary. Before viewing the video, learners could preview some background information. Even after viewing the video, there were exercise and related activities available in the courseware.
Amid the up-to-date technology now, I think there are some sort of similar IVD coursewares available even online. Provided that they are available online, its application in ESL classroom can be much enhanced without the need to install the programme into the laptop in the classroom.
I hope IVD designers could incorporate videos catering for the taste of young children and make IVD courswares on X-men, Spiderman i.e. more fashionable videos. Even such IVD courseware is not available, CALL interactive CALL ESL learning software on such topics can be great hits.
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It is indeed some time since this courseware was developed. In the meantime technology has developed considerably - most notably increased processing power, bandwidth and the across the board adoption of CMC (I've missed a lot I'm sure). What sort of things would you expect to see in a resource like the one described in the article, if you were it was developed now?
I agree to Paul that the project was dated. Nowadays technology has improved a lot. However, there're not much IVD courseware for young students. I think young kids cannot put up with long movies. So, short cartoons may be appropriate for them.
I think kids to watch long movies as long as they are what the kids like. However, if we can play those long movies to our kids, it is really a luxury to do so. I agree that short cartoons is a good choice.
One problem may be - how do you know whether your students are understanding movies you play, or learning from the experience? Suggestions?
We can ask them questions about the contents, whether they comprehand the movies.
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