1. On designing Network Based ELT Courseware
Li Ming

2. 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.

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Authoring Tools
Hot Potato

8. Dreamwaver

9. UltraEdit

10. WordSmith Tools

11. 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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