LEARNING A SECOND LANGUAGE

WITH

MULTIMEDIA AND HYPERMEDIA MATERIALS

HYPERTEXTIt is a system for

writing and display text links to additional

information on that text.

Hypertext has been defined as an

approach to manage and

organize information in which data is

stored in a network of nodes

connected by links.

The constructivist model is

characterized in this process, which allows the student to find information

that guides you turn by itself or

turn to one of his companions. Exploring the

hypertext helps students become an active explorer of information in

the process of language

acquisition

And also the cognitive model has to do here.

Have an associated

intuitive user interface; it is

intended to mimic the workings of

the human mind, using cognitive models, so the user should not

make great efforts to obtain the

required information

HYPERMEDIA

Hypermedia is related to hypertext, hypermedia

systems are "organizers of textual information, graphical visual and

audible through links that create associations

between related information in the system"

(Charity and Moscoso).

Hypermedia is related to CALL

(Intelligent Computer-Assited

Language Learning), which obviously means it has a

higher level than CALL.

In hypermedia the hook for a link no

longer simply limited to a word or group of words, it can also be, sound or video image

Multimedia refers to anything that uses several media simultaneously in the

transmission of information, through text, animations,

videos, images and sounds

Multimedia communication is a source of help for understanding

and language learning, as it is very similar to human

communication.

The striking environment which is designed multimedia programs to the attention of

students and encourages them to light. Some of these

programs have been designed as a tool, so that they have

not focused on satisfying the concerns of students.

MULTIMEDIA