--- Forwarded Message from Mike Ledgerwood <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:50:04 -0500 >To: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] >From: Mike Ledgerwood <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Fwd: Sunday Times article ------------------ Here is an interesting note (from the popular press) about language learning and technology, written by Graham Davies of EUROCALL >Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 05:17:44 -0500 >Reply-To: Graham Davies <[log in to unmask]> >Sender: Members of the European Association for Computer >Assisted Language Learning <[log in to unmask]> >From: Graham Davies <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Sunday Times article >To: [log in to unmask] >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by ms.cc.sunysb.edu id >FAA27284 > >Dear Colleagues > >This issue may have already been debated in EUROCALL - I've been away for a >while - so apologies if I am raising it again. > >Did anyone see the article on learning languages in the Travel section of >the Sunday Times, 25 March 2001? > >http://www.sunday-times.co.uk/news/pages/Sunday-Times/frontpage.html?999 > >Three approaches to language learning were compared: > >1. Michel Thomas: mainly audio CD >2. Berlitz: face-to-face >3. The Internet: BBC Online > >Three students followed a course for eight hours, each using a different >approach and learning a different language, and then they had to complete a >series of tasks in the country in which the language is spoken. > >The student who used the Internet fared worst, while the student who >followed Michel Thomas's course did best. Food for thought? > >Incidentally, any ideas you have on the Internet as a teaching >resource/medium for language learners will be welcome. I am currently >involved in HEFCE's E-Languages initiative - any success stories, failures, >anecdotal evidence? > >Regards >Graham Davies >[log in to unmask] >http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk >Virus checked with Norton AV, definitions as of 13/3/01