Share Paper: A Template to Use Existing Digitised Data for a CALL Program Shell for Indigenous Languages: A Community Centred Approach

  1. Virginia Westwood, Monash University, Australia
Tuesday, June 28 4:00-4:30 PM Room 8.1

Abstract: Many strategies have been employed to maintain or revitalise Australian Indigenous languages by linguists and communities. Despite this, the number of spoken languages continues to fall. There has been a call for sustainable Computer Assisted Language Learning courseware. This paper demonstrates a software template and shell application. The template makes use of digitised data compiled by linguists, reading the underlying files of a language dictionary from one community in Australia. The data is stored in XML files, and the interface allows the community to edit and import new data and multimedia resources. The data is then read by a pedagogically-sound ...