Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Computer Assisted Language Learning (15 Aug 2003) "One important fact that has emerged from this study is that Foreign Languages as a subject area is 'different' from most other subject areas in the curriculum, namely that it is skill-based as well as knowledge-based, and in this respect it has more in common with music than, say, history or geography." This is an important point. The media-rich environment that CALL software requires places considerable demands upon the hardware and the technicians who have to set it up and maintain it - a fact that is unfortunately often overlooked in most schools. Article URL: http://www.nestafuturelab.org/viewpoint/learn23.htm Read 76 more articles from NESTA Futurelab sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Consumer Media Capture: Time-Based Analysis and Clustering     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy