Language Culture and Curriculum
Editor and Book Reviews Editor: Eoghan Mac Aogain (St Patrick's College)
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Volume: 13 Number: 3 Page: 264–278
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Bilingual Multimedia: Some Challenges for Teachers
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Viv Edwards, Frank Monaghan and Tony Hartley
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The present paper examines issues which emerged during the course of a project developing software for the production of bilingual multimedia stories in European languages of lesser diffusion. The language
pairs in question are Basque and French, Catalan and Spanish, Dutch and Frisian, Irish and English and Welsh and English. Arguments are presented for the greater flexibility of bilingual multimedia over
'paper' books in terms of visual display, choice of language and the use of sound. There is also discussion of the complex issue of how best to use both languages to support second language learning and
whether 'parallel authoring' presents a more useful approach than translation.
© Multilingual Matters 2000
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