On designing Network Based ELT Courseware Li Ming

The phenomenal growth of the Internet over the last few years, coupled with the development of various multimedia applications which exploit the Internet presents exciting opportunities for educators, especially language teachers. Network provides teachers and learners with great freedom in the choice of authentic language input and arouses learner’s interest in learning and teachers’ keenness to teach as well. The call for network based foreign language learning and teaching thus becomes a focus of ELT practice. This paper aims to illustrate some empirical principles and guidance in the design of network based ELT courseware.

Features of Network Based ELT Courseware Ability to be shared easily Openness Language Learning Driven by corpora data Strengthened teachers’ role and interactive communications

Concerns in Designing Network Based ELT Courseware Adaptation of a existing textbook Overwhelming Links Neglect of teachers’ active role Over use of multimedia resources Lack of interactive function/ communication

Empirical Principles of Designing Network Based ELT Courseware Assistance to learning practice Authenticity, meaningfulness and task-based in selection of lecture content DDL model (corpus application) in CALL courseware design instance

Effective Practice of Courseware Design Predesign considerations Target Needs Social Needs Teacher’s Needs Design progress courseware specification  instructional design  text conversion  multimedia development  integration  implementation  evaluation

Authoring Tools Hot Potato

Dreamwaver

UltraEdit

WordSmith Tools

Conclusion CALL has changed language teaching and learning completely. The advancement of ELT and CALL calls for more and more network based language courseware of high quality. The design of network based ELT courseware takes efforts but the benefit outweighs the strains.

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