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The academic presentations are available in two downloadable formats - as a .pdf for those who have Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0. If you do not have a copy, Acrobat Reader can be downloaded for free from the Adobe site.

The presentations are also available as a .doc for those looking for a Microsoft Word version. Choose from the list below:

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This guide has been developed over the past twelve months. It is the culmination of a number of workshops given by J. Stephen Byrne at Training the Trainer sessions held at University College Dublin, Ireland, The Institute of Technology, Tallaght, Ireland and The College of Business & Management, Budapest, Hungary.

This guide is designed to assist teachers evaluate the increasing range of software materials for language learning.

BESIG 1998

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This workshop involved discussing and establishing criteria to evaluate Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) materials.

TESOL-BESIG Spain 1998

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This paper reports on an investigation based at Trinity College Dublin, into the pedagogical value of a multimedia course called 'Let's Do Business', an English course for business people on CD-ROM. The presentation will focus on the learner's interaction with the training materials with a special emphasis on cultural issues.

IATEFL 1997

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This talk reports on the pedagogical value of Let's Do Business, an English language training course for business people on CD-ROM developed by Abacus Communications. The CD-ROM based course was examined in context of more conventional learning environments. The main conclusion is that close parallels appear to exist between the nature of the interaction in the CALL environment and the negotiation of meaning that takes place in pair-work activities in the classroom.

Expolangue 2001

This paper was presented at Expolangues January 2001, addressing future directions of technology based language learning
         

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