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In this report Hypermedia, an emergent technology in search of applications, finds yet another home in Computer Assisted Language Learning, or CALL. Within CALL we focus on the subject of foreign vocabulary acquisition and promote the use of Hypermedia's hallmark, computer-based links among multi-media data, to support instructionally significant semantic links. The resulting instructional tool, which we term a HyperLexicon, appears as a natural extension of the classic vocabulary acquisition tools, the dictionary and thesaurus. This paper presents a conceptual design for the tool along with examples of coupled semantic / hypermedia links and illustrations of their use. We have implemented an interesting proof-of-concept demonstration system on a micro-computer which provides several HyperLexicon lessons incorporating many of the link-pairs discussed in this report.
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Bui, K.P. (1989). HyperLexicon, a hypermedia-based lexicon for vocabulary acquisition. In: Maurer, H. (eds) Computer Assisted Learning. ICCAL 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 360. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51142-3_48
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