Abstract
Times have changed and language learning goals with them. Students in post-industrial societies now require a “cultural communicative” approach, based on treating speech as “historical will” and on introjecting the target culture’s Weltanschauung (mind-set) together with its linguistic system. In this kind of teaching, computers may be used to rehearse the classroom simulations which prepare for real-life interaction. Cultural-communicative work on the computer is perceived as non-mechanical and genuinely aids the process of interiorizing the new mind-set. A pilot CALL program, written in LISP on a MacIntosh platform, is described. It illustrates how a tested cultural-communicative classroom practice, “Conversation Rebuilding”, lends itself to a (no-frills) implementation on an ordinary PC.
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Boylan, P., Micarelli, A. (1998). Learning Languages as “Culture” with CALL. In: Calvi, L., Geerts, W. (eds) CALL, Culture and the Language Curriculum. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1536-6_5
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