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The influence of audio support on the effectiveness of CALL

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Ute Greifnieder
Ute Greifnieder
Affiliation:
Hessisches Institut für Bildungsplanung und Schulentwicklung, Wiesbaden, Germany
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Abstract

The paper presents the results of an evaluation study conducted in the context of a project called “Computer assisted Learning of German as a Foreign Language” for children of non-German mother tongue, undertaken in Hesse, Germany. The study aimed at finding out whether the integration of an audio component enhances the effectiveness of learning (remembering) vocabulary with CALL materials. LeseWelt, a computerised vocabulary development game for children, was used for the experiment. It is available in two different manners of presentation: visual only and visual plus acoustic. The paper briefly presents the two versions of the program, then describes the design of the experiment and reports the results.

Type
Research Article
Information
ReCALL , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , December 1995 , pp. 29 - 35
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1995

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