and pronunciation alone.
Given a "modern" computer (Note that after six months a computer has entered obsolescence!), what counts are the software and its integration in the curriculum. All university campuses and a great many elementary and secondary schools now use some form of CAI--however cautiously or timidly. PLATO and TICCIT may still be experimental, but they and like systems are gaining ground. Microcomputer applications in ESL and foreign language teaching/learning are so "hyped" today that they have given birth to CALI--Computer Assisted Language Instruction, with its own periodical, the CACICO Journal published by the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium. If hard drives and 3(" diskettes are currently the software supports, interactive videodiscs are in the process of taking over. Their memory are voluminous; they offer still and motion pictures and sound; they are on the way to permit writing-to as well as reading-to.
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