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>Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:23:38 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Ed Dente <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #6640 Correction software
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>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum    <[log in to unmask]>

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On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, LLTI-Editor wrote:
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> I'd be interested in hearing your comments about making advanced document
> correction software available in language labs.  I'm talking about programs
> like El Correcteur, Antidote--that sort of thing--as opposed to the usual
> Microsoft proofing tools or textbook publisher's ancillary software.  I'm
> mostly interested in French, Spanish, Italian, and/or German.  The
> professors here are not excited about having that level of auto-correction
> available to their students in the lab, but the students are clamoring for
> it, and I'm sitting on the fence up here in spring-like Vermont wondering
> which way to go...
> Regards,
> Sue

 We do not offer anything but the proofing tools
because of 1. differences among instructors about what they feel
their students should
have as helps. Some think they're ok, some don't, and 2. difficulties both
students and instructors had w/ Le Correcteur during the one trial period
we gave it. Of course, there's nothing to keep individual students from
buying their own copies for their home computers. We haven't seen much of
that, though.

And, Sue, when you say "spring-like Vermont", I think you mean "Time NOT
to drive by farms being prepared for planting in a Miata w/ the top down."

Cheers,
Ed
 "If you want to call me that, smile."
                       -Gary Cooper, <<The Virginian>>

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Edmund N. Dente
Director, Language Media Center    Ph: 617-627-3036
Tufts University                   [log in to unmask]
Medford, MA 02155