Willkommen in Munchen: a HyperCard database for use in teaching German.

Authors

  • Belinda Torlot

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29173/lirg411

Keywords:

HyperCard database, German GCSE, teaching, information, facts, photographs, Munich, National Curriculum, teenagers, teaching resiyrces, teaching resources

Abstract

Willkommen in Munchen or "Welcome to Munich" is a HyperCard database, entirely in German, designed to be a resource for teaching German to GCSE level. It contains information, facts and photographs of the city of Munich. The information is all authentic, collected on a visit to Munich in June 19933. The information included in the database is intended to be relevant to topics currently covered in the National Curriculum and is aimed at a teenage audience. It was created as part of a Masters dissertation at Loughborough University. For this dissertation, HyperCard was assessed as a tool for creating a resource for teaching German. It was argued that it might be more appropriate to create a package that would act as a teaching aid to support the teacher rather than a self-access package that attempted to replace the teacher, although the latter is much more common in existing Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) packages.

Author Biography

Belinda Torlot

Centre for Modern Languages, University of Plymouth

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Vol. 19 No. 63 (1995)

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