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>Subject: RE: #8711.2 (!) "shell" for reading text: GALT
>Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 09:37:19 +1000
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>Thread-Topic: #8711.2 (!) "shell" for reading text: GALT
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>From: "Shannon Johnston" <[log in to unmask]>
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Dear Nina and the rest of LLTI-ers

I've just been in contact with Dr Lyman-Hager (thanks to the information
Nina provided below), and now have an update on the status of GALT. It's
not dead yet!

She says: "the old version of the software is still available and
downloadable free of charge from LARC's website.  It will allow you as
the author to do all that you describe. We are in the process of working
on a brand new version, but the old one is still working. The link is
http://larcnet.sdsu.edu/teacher.php?page=downloads. Download the manual
and read this first."

She also says: "We are making the newest version compatible with the
e-books concept, internet based, so that people can download to their
PDAs or phones."

:) Regards,

Shannon

Shannon Johnston
* Instructional Designer
Teaching and Educational Development Institute 
* Indonesian Instructor (beginner & advanced IFL)
School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies
University of Queensland, QUEENSLAND Australia 4106
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Subject: #8711.2 (!) "shell" for reading text

GALT (Glossing Authentic Language Texts) was an IBM-based template 
developed by Mary Ann Lyman-Hager;  she was at Penn State then, but 
is now Director of the Language Acquisition Resource Center (LARC) at 
San Diego State ([log in to unmask]).  She created GALT versions 
of 21 French texts -- poems, songs, stories, the first chapter 
of  Une Vie de Boy -- which are (were?) sold by Wiley & Sons --  CD 
Rom, I think -- called "A L'aventure".  GALT was a sophisticated 
template that allowed teachers to create all the annotations you 
describe, but I don't think it's still available.

A similar template called ART, which is web-based, has been created 
at the Yale Center for Language Study as part of a suite of nine 
web-based templates funded by the Dept. of Education International 
Research and Studies program.  Go to http://cls.yale.edu/, and under 
Technology click on COMET.  You'll find information and sample 
activities for the templates and contact information if you want to 
follow up on them.

         Best,
                 Nina Garrett



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