A literature review of user interaction to support creative processes is given. A design for an authoring system for semi-automatically generated hypermedia presentations is developed. The system designed is called SampLe (a Semi-Automatic Multimedia Presentation generation Environment). 2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 1998 ACM Computing Classification System: H.5.1 Multimedia Informat...

This  paper  describes  how  English  as  a  Foreign  Language  (EFL)  teachers  can  bring  reliable, valid, user-friendly assessment into their classrooms, and thus improve the quality of learning that  occurs  there.  Based  on  the  experience  of  the  author  as  a  an  EFL  teacher  and  teacher-trainer, it is suggested that the promotion and development of autonomy, intrinsic motivation...

The first Adaptive Hypermedia System (AHS) was presented in the early nineties (Furuta & Scotts, 1990), (Ginderen, 1990). However, this model was not based in World Wide Web (WWW). The first use in WWW appeared in 1996 (Brusilovsky, 1996). Currently, AHS are used for information recovery; interface adaptation, user assistance, learning support, dialogue, cooperation support and others applicati...

In our modern technological world, Computer-Assisted Language learning (CALL) is a new realm towards learning a language in general, and learning L2 vocabulary in particular. It is assumed that the use of multimedia annotations promotes language learners’ vocabulary acquisition. Therefore, this study set out to investigate the effects of different multimedia annotations (still picture annotatio...

In textbooks the different topics are introduced in an order which is (supposedly) the best way for learning the subject at hand. Once the student masters the subject, most textbooks are not well suited for use as reference material, because related topics are not located near each other. This paper presents a framework for self-modifying hyperdocuments. A textbook, delivered as on-line hyperte...

Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is reaching an up most position in the pedagogical field of English as a Second or Foreign Language (ESL/EFL). The present study was carried out to study the effect of using phonetic websites on Iranian EFL students’ pronunciation and knowledge of phonemic symbols. Participants of the study included 30 EFL female pre-intermediate students studyin...

the development of the information and communication technology is considered as an effective step that has considerably changed in the educational goals, plans, and teaching procedures and improved educational effectiveness.  introducing ‘the software for assessing and teaching core vocabularies to non-persian speakers’, the present study aims to accentuate the role of technology in the educat...

this qualitative study analyzes the reasons of college students for learning english as a foreign language (efl) in costa rica and the reasons of high school students for learning german as a foreign language (gfl) in the us. it asks to what extent the learners’ reasons align with or deviate from neoliberal discourses that commodify foreign languages. the analysis of 27 interviews in a us high ...

The SPELL (Spoken Electronic Language Learning) system is a self-access computer-assisted language learning (CALL) package that integrates speaker-independent continuous speech recognition technology with virtual worlds and embodied virtual agents to create an environment in which learners can converse in the target language within meaningful contextualized scenarios. In this paper we provide a...