ABSTRACT
In this age of rapid technological development and educational reform, there is an
indisputable need for multimedia software to teach foreign-language skills. Nearly all
involved in foreign-language instruction worldwide are searching for suitable lan-
guage-instruction courseware. However, there are few commercially available inter-
active multimedia courseware packages for language instruction which are pedagog-
ically sound, curriculum-based, and easy-to-adapt. Foreign language programs would
benefit greatly from such courseware, which would, ideally, integrate cultural infor-
mation and the language skill areas of grammar, speaking, listening, reading, and
writing, thus eliminating the need for multiple distinct computer programs which do
not work in tandem and do not provide for a comprehensive, cohesive language foun-
dation.
