Monday, March 8, 2010

Reflection on practical considerarions on multimedia courseware development: a EFL IVD experience

According to the intensive reading from this article, we can see the deep research has been carried on the theme of IVD and EFL in the English learning classroom. With the awarding of equipments from Ministry of Education to Tsing Hua University, the research of IVD( Interative VideoDisk) project of courseware development in EFL classroom has been launched. The purpose of the research is to use IVD to enhance learners' EFL skills. The four objectives were adopted in the project that original scripts was analyzed in the form of function analysis. The three objectives are including the linguistic and paralinguistic features, the training of learning strategies and the negotiated model in language learning. The research is still going on that the effectiveness of courseware will be accomplished in coming years.