Hypermedia in the Teaching of Italian

Abstract

I will present the results of a two-year project (L'Italiano interattivo) which started in 1989 in collaboration with the Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities. So far two Italian video discs have been repurposed.

The learner-directed courseware gives the student a high degree of freedom to choose which activity to work with at any moment—video, exercises, grammar, dictionary or transcripts of the dialogues/commentaries.

The program, which has been developed in SuperCard, is organized as a hypermedia system where video, text, graphics and audio are linked together in a web of information.