ABSTRACT
COOL/CALP 1 was developed to diagnose and remedy deficiencies in traditional parsing skills (both parts-of-speech and functional constituents) with first-year language students at Dutch universities and teacher training colleges. Though conceived as a series of tests/exercises with minimal feedback (right/wrong response), students can explore explanations and examples through hypertext links at any time. COOL/CALP was developed in 1993–1995 at the Linguistics Department of Leiden University. It was used in the two succeeding years and evaluated on the basis of students’ responses to a written opinion poll. We will outline the pedagogical and technical principles underlying the programme, and discuss the results of the formal evaluation.
