--- Forwarded Message from Dennie Hoopingarner <[log in to unmask]> --- >User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.1.2418 >Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 07:16:47 -0500 >Subject: First-year self-instructional courses >From: Dennie Hoopingarner <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> At Michigan State, we are testing the program Tesoros for first-year Spanish. Rather than self-instructional, though, we are teaching it in a hybrid mode, with students in a teacher-fronted classroom half the conventional time, and the other half using the software. We're in the first semester of trying it out, so it's hard to tell how effective this setup will be, but early reports are promising. Dennie Hoopingarner Director, Language Learning Center Michigan State University