Developing Electronic Materials for Language - created from Mind Map

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Using hypermedia links:

CONTRIBUTIONS TO LANGUAGUE LEARNING:

Making reading easier:

Developing Comprehension Strategies

Designers of electronic reading programs should take into account such factors as:

Electronic materials designed to teach writing should include information on how to find, select and evaluate information sites.

Links have to increase students ‘exposure to the target language and make use of authentic contexts.

Multimedia offers the possibility of using other modalities as glosses.

The reader might be provide with a photo, a diagram, an illustration or an animation to give a clue the meaning of the word.

So these have a positive effect on comprehension.

Electronic materials can enhance the experience of learning to read in a second language.

Text animation (e.g., flashing, movement of letters) can also help to focus the reader´s attention on certain features.

Hypermedia makes it possible to build into a single page a number of clickable options to support the L2 reader.

For example: links to other pages, menus

Hypertext and multimedia can facilitate comprehension of text by providing timely support.

Strategy training can enhance reading comprehension. Predicting, skimming, and scanning. Guessing unknown words.

 Identifying an authentic reading goal.

 Providing a meaningful context.

 Introducing different genres and registers

 Building in systematic vocabulary expansion.

Tools such as spell-checkers, syntax alerts and autoformating assist at the editing stage.

Materials

Hypermedia, multimedia and communication media are being used to develop specific aspects of L2 learners.

Materials would be filtered and distributed in ways that fostered recursive exploration.

Hypermedia.

Multimedia :

hypertext link to include links among any set of multimedia objects,.

A hypermedia page can provide much more information.

Multimedia elements can be combined automatically or be accessed by the reader making a deliberate selection.

They can include a variety of media:

Still graphics (photos, illustrations, diagrams, icons, maps, etc.)

Animated graphics Video

Static text, Animated text, Sound Voice,