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Where initially language courseware (dedicated, meaning designed for language learning, teaching and testing) was the most successful application type, gradually tools (non-dedicated) have been taking over the leading position, both in terms of use as in terms of research and publications. An easy explanation of this phenomenon might be the impact of Web 2.0, but a more serious analysis reveals two important factors: the labor-intensiveness of content development and the labor-intensiveness of software development (Colpaert 2004). | Where initially language courseware (dedicated, meaning designed for language learning, teaching and testing) was the most successful application type, gradually tools (non-dedicated) have been taking over the leading position, both in terms of use as in terms of research and publications. An easy explanation of this phenomenon might be the impact of Web 2.0, but a more serious analysis reveals two important factors: the labor-intensiveness of content development and the labor-intensiveness of software development (Colpaert 2004). | ||
The | The cloze exercise type remains a widely demanded, meaningful, useful and effective activity type. The impact of its deployment depends on the extent to which we can reduce the cost of content authoring (by reusing existing material, making it more generic and exchangeable, by researching new ways of generating content and questions from authentic materials in a computer assisted way, ...), and the cost of software development (by using appropriate design models, by reusing existing components and expertise, by working in open source, ...). | ||
== Project objective == | == Project objective == | ||