|
MaxAuthor Version 2.5
Try our online language lessons See our exhibit at the Arizona State Museum
Co-Director and Research Engineer
Co-Director Mail comments to: brill@u.arizona.edu
|
We produce software to help students learn languages. Our specialties are Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs), multimedia, and authoring systems. Our software runs on MS-Windows and can accommodate text in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Native American, European, and other languages. Our MAX family of software is carefully constructed to be easy to use for both instructors and students and can use the Web for direct delivery of most lesson formats. Now available through the University of Arizona Press, The Critical Languages Series CD-ROMs and DVD-ROMs are the latest products created with our software. See our new Flash demonstration videos. Create your own lessonsMaxAuthor makes authoring language courseware as easy as typing in the lesson text and recording your voice. No programming is needed.The University of Arizona's National Foreign Language Resource Center:CERCLL: The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language, and Literacy. As a part of the Center, we have created MaxAuthor video tutorials.
MaxBrowser3For those of you who have created lessons with MaxAuthor or who have one of the Critical Languages CD-ROMs or DVD-ROMs: try the new version of MaxBrowser which allows you to directly interact with MAX lessons over the Internet.New materials in productionWe have a grant from the US Dept of Education for the creation of Kurdish I, Ukrainian II, and Turkish III materials.Read about our pedagogy"The Impact of Self-Instructional Technology on Language Learning: A View of NASILP", A. Dunkel, S. Brill, B. Kohl, In C.A. Spreen (Ed.), New Technologies and Language Learning: Cases in the Less Commonly Taught Languages (Technical Report #25; pp. 97-120). Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai'i, Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center, 2002, ISBN: 0824826345. (full text PDF)
Funding provided by:
the US Department of Education,
the Office of
the Dean of the College of Humanities,
the Office of the Vice-President for Research (University of
Arizona), and
the National Association of Self-Instructional Language Programs (NASILP).
|