Please Note: The following evalutaions of English as second language (ESL) software are based on descriptions made by software publishers on their World Wide Web sites. We applied a modified and conciderably more compact version of our criteria form used for the CD-ROM evaluation. Our own comments are replaced by information retrieved from the internet pages. Since this rather detailed analysis (detailed compared to a standard bibliography) is very expansive in terms of time we used this detailed analysis only on twenty eight programmes. Additonaly we have put up a - by no means complete - list of further ESL software, found on the internet.

 
 

No	3	4
Programme	Active English (Series)	Aviation Communication, VFR  (only Beta Versions available by August 1999)
Publisher (url, mail, home, telephone number, postal addraess, date of publication, etc)	Courseware Publishing International (CPI), http://www.usecpi.com/main.htm,  August 23, 1999	Courseware Publishing International (CPI), http://www.usecpi.com/main.htm,  August 23, 1999
Package  (number of CDs, manual, microphone, price, amount of vocabs, ...)	Active English One, Active English Two, Active English Three, Active English Four.  Individual price: $ 125  Complete Set Active English: $395  Five complete sets: $1250  Ten complete sets: $1950  Network license to support upto 40 terminals on a single campus: $3000	Anyone who purchases the program now will receive a free copy of the commercial version when it is released.
System requirements  - platform  - processor  - RAM  - free disk space  - video card  - sound card  - CD-ROM speed  - microphone  other	Windows 3.1, '95, '98 or NT:  Pentium 75Mhz recommended with 8MB for Windows 3.1; 16 MB for Windows '95/NT, 2X or faster CD-ROM drive, 256 color monitor, SVGA, 16-bit sound card.	Windows 3.1, 95 or Later, 66MHz 80486DX microprocessor (Pentium recommended), 256 Color display, 8 MB RAM (16 MB recommended), a 2x CD-ROM drive or better, a mouse or other pointing device, 15 MB of free Hard Disk space, a 16-bit sound card and a speaker or a headphone, a unidirectional microphone.
The programme  programme type garde / year or special target group (e.g. business)    level team or pair learning possible specially designed for teacher advised learning	Listening proficiency and vocabulary.  secondary, college and adult learners           Intermediate, Advanced  no   no	- terminology and communications knowledge needed for flying under Visual Flight Rules (VFR) in  the United States     no   yes
Content  number of units kind of exercises (fill-in tasks)	- four modules with up to six activities in each module. The fourth module on each CD, the review module, is made up of five activities.  - Sentence Edit (find the mistake, if any). Vocabulary Challenge (Similar and opposite). Questions from charts and graphs. Stories for extra reading practice. Activities based on the overall theme.	- 3 units: Local, Short cross country, Long cross country   - 1. Ground School introduces Aviation Communication principals. 2.Demonstration Flight where the student watches and listens to a simulated flight. During the demonstration flight the "instructor/pilot" engages in conversations with the ATC and the student is asked questions about what is said, why it is said, etc. 3.On your own involves a second flight similar to the first except the student must answer and initiate dialog with the ATC.4.Exercises or activities designed to reinforce learning of the key items.
Multimedial scope  listening exercises oral exercises voice recording video clips online internet learning possible	Yes  Yes   Yes   Yes   No	yes   yes   yes   yes  no
Comments by the Designer:	Active English provides a rich environment for increasing the learner's ability to process spoken language in real time by supplying comprehensible input in context through a graphics-enhanced storyline. Language occurs at natural speed and includes reductions learners hear from native speakers outside class. Voices include appearances by real-world guest speakers working in sports, business, and television.	Aviation Communication VFR follows FAA rules since the setting for the three flight modules is in the U.S.

 

 
 

No.	5	6
Programme	Accent Improvement 2.0	Adam & Eve  Order Number: AdeDs-I
Publisher (url, mail, home, telephone number, postal addraess, date of publication, etc)	Athelstan  http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .	Athelstan  http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .
Package  (number of CDs, manual, microphone, price, amount of vocabs, ...)	Individual: AccMc-I $199.00  Site License: AccMc-S $449.00 ?	Idividual: $320.00
System requirements  - platform  - processor  - RAM  - free disk space  - video card  - sound card  - CD-ROM speed  - microphone  other	Macintosh only	MS-DOS only
The programme  programme type garde / year or special target group (e.g. business) levels  team or pair learning possible specially designed for teacher advised learning	Vocabulary trainer.  All ages.  Beginner.  No  No	Authoring tool. Evaluets difficulty of a given text and produces gap-test sheets of that text. Records the sudents` progress.  apropriate for allmost all levels and ages  no  yes
Content  number of units kind of exercises (fill-in tasks)	280 Vocabs words in contrasted pairs
Multimedial scope  listening exercises oral exercises voice recording video clips online internet learning possible	Yes  ?  ?  no   no	Does not apply.  no
Desingner`s comments:		Adam & Eve is designed to help all language teachers give their students a wide variety of exercise material tailored to their needs. The text could be from the class course-book, from a reader, from a newspaper, or anything else in which the teacher or students are interested. Adam & Eve will analyze the vocabulary of the text according to the database of word frequency contained within the software. From this analysis, the teacher can get a precise idea of the level of difficulty of a text, and can then compare it to another text, or see whether it fits within the syllabus. The program will then create a variety of exercises based on this analysis.

 

 
 

No.	7	8
Programme	Choicemaster	Corpus Collections A  Corpus Collection B
Publisher (url, mail, home, telephone number, postal addraess, date of publication, etc)	Athelstan  http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .
Package  (number of CDs, manual, microphone, price, amount of vocabs, ...)	Up to five licences:   Mac: 99$  DOS: ChmDs-S $297.00  More than five:   Mac: ChmMc-ES $297.00   DOS: ChmDs-ES $297.00	Corpus Collection A (News paper texts)  Individual: CcaDs-I $ 59.95  Site License: CcaDs-S $159.00  Corpus Collection B (scinces)  Individual: CcbDs-I $ 59.95  Site License: CcbDs-S $159.00
System requirements  - platform  - processor  - RAM  - free disk space  - video card  - sound card  - CD-ROM speed  - microphone  other	DOS and Macintosh	DOS only
The programme  programme type garde / year or special target group (e.g. business) levels  team or pair learning possible specially designed for teacher advised learning	Authoring tool.  Preparing mutiple choise tests.  Beginner / Advanced  yes   yes no	Authoring tool.  Special genre texts.  Advanced  Yes  yes
Content  number of units kind of exercises (fill-in tasks)		Five texts corpora in each Corpus Collection
Multimedial scope  listening exercises oral exercises voice recording video clips internet online learning	yes no   yes no   yes no   yes no   yes no	no   no   no   no   no
Producer`s description:	A multiple-choice test authoring package that consists of a Teacher Program, a Student Program, and  some sample files. The Teacher Program has full word-processing capabilities and allows the teacher to create exercises containing up to 99 items. Each item can have two to five choices, and each choice can be accompanied by a message which is displayed if the student selects that choice.

 

 
 

No.	9	10
Programme	Dasher	Dictation A & B  Dictation C & D
Publisher (url, mail, home, telephone number, postal addraess, date of publication, etc)	Athelstan  http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .	Athelstan  http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .
Package  (number of CDs, manual, microphone, price, amount of vocabs, ...)	Individual:  DshMc-I $150.00 (Macintosh)  DshWs-I $150.00 (Windows)  Site License:   DshMc-S $450.00 (Macintosh)  DshWs-S $450.00 (Windows)	Dictation A & B:  Individual: DabMc-I $149.00   Site License: DabMc-S $300.00  Dictation C & D:  Individual: DcdMc-I $149.00  Site License: DcdMc-S $300.00
System requirements  - platform  - processor  - RAM  - free disk space  - video card  - sound card  - CD-ROM speed  - microphone  other	Macintosh and Windows	Macintosh only.  Requires HyperCard 2.0 or higher. HyperCard color application/driver is included.
The programme  programme type garde / year or special target group (e.g. business) levels  team or pair learning possible specially designed for teacher advised learning	Teachers tool for preparing storys. All ages All levels Yes Yes	Dictaion exercises. all ages Advanced No Yes
Content  number of units kind of exercises (fill-in tasks)	Teachers tool for preparing story exercises, substitutions, sentence combining, multiple choice exercises, scrambled sentences, vocabulary building,dialogue presentation and review, transformations, image-based exercises, true/false exercises, fill-in-the-blanks, dictation, translation, synthetics, and video-based exercises	Dictation A & B:  concentrates on reduced speech (such as want to = wanna) in the context of real-life conversation. Topics are: food, workplace language, job interview.  Dictaion C & D:  ending, modal, and commonly misspelled words while using advice and leisure activities as subjects.
Multimedial scope  listening exercises oral exercises voice recording video clips internet online learning	No   no   no   no   no	Yes   no   no   no   no
Producer`s comments:	The Dasher Authoring System makes it easy for teachers to create exercises for their foreign language students. Teachers simply provide the instructions, questions, and answers, and the program does the rest. When students respond to the created exercises, Dasher's unique system of dashes and arrows marks their errorsand guides them letter by letter to the correct answer. This response to students' errors is the program's most distinctive feature. Because Dasher uses dashes and arrows to mark incorrect or missing characters, there is no need for a knowledge of grammatical terminology. Students simply type new letters to replace the visual cues. They can work at their own pace, checking responses again and again, as often as they desire.

 

 
 

No.	11	12
Programme	Graffiti One and In the Print Shop	ListenPro
Publisher (url, mail, home, telephone number, postal addraess, date of publication, etc)	Athelstan  http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .	Athelstan (ESL Institute)  http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .
Package  (number of CDs, manual, microphone, price, amount of vocabs, ...)	Individual: Gr1Mc-I $ 79.00  Site License: Gr1Mc-S $150.00	Individual: LisMc-I $229.00  Site License: LisMc-S $300.00
System requirements  - platform  - processor  - RAM  - free disk space  - video card  - sound card  - CD-ROM speed  - microphone  other	For Macintosh only.  Requires HyperCard 2.0 or higher.	For Macintosh only. Requires HyperCard 2.0 or higher.  HyperCard color application/driver included.
The programme  programme type  garde / year or special target group (e.g. business) levels  team or pair learning possible specially designed for teacher advised learning	Used for basic vocabulary and understanding. adult students - Beginers.  no   yes	listening practice all collage and high school advanced no no
Content  number of units kind of exercises (fill-in tasks)	These comic book-like HyperCard-based reading programs use photographs and sound to tell a story suitable for adult users. Test, skimming and scanning, dictation, alphabetizing, text reconstruction.	- TOEFL practice test, and a skill-building section
Multimedial scope  listening exercises oral exercises voice recording video clips internet online learning	Yes   no   no   yes  no	Yes   no   no   no   no
Producer`s comments:

 

 
 

No.	13	14
Programme	Matchmaster	MC Author!
Publisher (url, mail, home, telephone number, postal addraess, date of publication, etc)	Athelstan (ESL Institute)  http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .	Athelstan (ESL Institute)  http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .
Package  (number of CDs, manual, microphone, price, amount of vocabs, ...)	One Teacher and one Student Programme.  Up to five users:  MtmMc-S $ 99.00 (Macintosh)  MtmDs-S $ 99.00 (DOS)  More than six users:   MtmMc-ES $297.00 (Macintosh)  MtmDs-ES $297.00 (DOS)	Individual: McaMc-I $ 79.00  Site License: McaMc-S $150.00
System requirements  - platform  - processor  - RAM  - free disk space  - video card  - sound card  - CD-ROM speed  - microphone  other	For Macintosh and DOS.	Macintosh only.
The programme  programme type  garde / year or special target group (e.g. business) levels  team or pair learning possible specially designed for teacher advised learning	Construction and application of pair matching exercises. all ages all levels Yes (two player game mode) Yes	- authoring programme.        yes no   yes no
Content  number of units kind of exercises (fill-in tasks)	matching pairs of different kinds. The pairs can be vocabulary items, idioms, sentence halves, questions and answers, etc. games and matching exercises	to be chosen by the teacher
Multimedial scope  listening exercises oral exercises voice recording video clips internet online learning	no   no   no   no   no	yes no   yes no   yes no   yes no   yes no
Producer`s comments:

 

 
 

No.	15	16
Programme	Pinpoint	Reading for English series
Publisher (url, mail, home, telephone number, postal addraess, date of publication, etc)	Athelstan   http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .	Athelstan   http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .
Package  (number of CDs, manual, microphone, price, amount of vocabs, ...)	Up to five users PnpDs-S $ 99.00  More than five users PnpDs-ES $297.00	Level 1: The Locked Room (LkrDs-I).   Level 2: The Eyes of Montezuma (EyeDs-I).  Level 3: Lifelines (LifDs-I).  Level 4: Space Affair (SpaDs-I)  Individual price: 24.95$ each.  Set of 4 CDs (RfeDs-I): $ 79.00.  Site License (RfeDs-S): $199.00.
System requirements  - platform  - processor  - RAM  - free disk space  - video card  - sound card  - CD-ROM speed  - microphone  other	For DOS only.	Dos only.
The programme  programme type  levels  garde / year or special target group (e.g. business) team or pair learning possible specially designed for teacher advised learning	Teachers` tool for creating exercises for training fast reading skill. above elementary school intermediate and advanced no yes	Reading and text comprehension trainer. intermediate and advanced all ages yes (class activity & self learning) yes
Content  number of units kind of exercises (fill-in tasks)	to be specified by teacher. reading	Each CD follows a special story line. gab fill-ins, Vocab tests, sentence and text reconstruction, each activity is scored, opportunity to read the text on screen while having a glossary available
Multimedial scope  listening exercises oral exercises voice recording video clips internet online learning	no   no   no   no   no	yes no   no  no  no  no
Producer`s comments:		Reading for English is a series of computer-assisted learning materials for students of English as a second  or foreign language. The materials use a principle of "text-based learning": a reading text is taken as the starting point for a number of different activities designed to develop learners' reading skills, their understanding of the structure and coherence of texts and their ability to deduce meaning from context. Each disk contains the full text of a reader from the Oxford University Press Streamline Graded Readers  series, at one of four different levels, along with a full set of activities based on the reader.

 

No.	17	18
Programme	Storyboard	Testmaster
Publisher (url, mail, home, telephone number, postal addraess, date of publication, etc)	Athelstan   http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .	Athelstan   http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .
Package  (number of CDs, manual, microphone, price, amount of vocabs, ...)	Includes pupils Exercise Programme and exersise development kit for teachers.  1 - 5 users:   StbMc-S $ 99.00 (Macintosh)  StbDs-S $ 99.00 (DOS)  More than five users:   StbMc-ES $297.00 (Macintosh)  StbDs-ES $297.00 (DOS)	Inlcudes one Teacher Program and one Student Program.  up to five users:   Macintosh (TsmMc-S): $ 99.00.   DOS (TsmDs-S): $297.00.  More than 6 users:   Macintosh (TsmMc-ES): $297.00.  DOS (TsmDs-ES): $297.00.
System requirements  - platform  - processor  - RAM  - free disk space  - video card  - sound card  - CD-ROM speed  - microphone  other	For Macintosh and DOS.	For Macintosh and DOS.
The programme  programme type    garde / year or special target group (e.g. business) levels  team or pair learning possible specially designed for teacher advised learning	Sophisticated fill-in exercises can be written by teachers and solved by students. elementary school and older Intermediate and advanced No Yes	- Multiple-choice test authoring package.  elementary school and older all levels no yes
Content  number of units kind of exercises (fill-in tasks)	fill in tasks with special features like scoring system and automatic helping functions.	fill in tasks with feedback  Exam Mode, which delays feedback until the end of the exercise; and Browse Mode, which allows students to explore the right and wrong choices in a file outside the confines of a formal "test." In all three modes, the student can move freely among the items and answer them in any order.
Multimedial scope  listening exercises oral exercises voice recording video clips internet online learning	no   no   no   no   no	No  No  No  No  No
Producer`s comments:	A popular, flexible, and useful text reconstruction program based on a simple principle: a short text (up to  2000 characters) is entirely obliterated on screen, each letter of each word being replaced by a small "blob," leaving only the title, punctuation, numbers, and spacing intact. The student is to restore it by guessing single words. When a word is found, it is printed in place wherever it occurs in the text. With ist excellent help features, Storyboard lends itself to a variety of different uses and learning styles. These features give students the choice to: ask for difficult words (selected by the teacher) to be given at the start; ask for hints (for words determined by the teacher); ask for any letter of any word to be provided; ask for any whole word to be provided; ask for any whole word; guess prefixes and suffixes; save an incomplete exercise and resume later; and to see the whole text at any time, an option which can be switched off by the teacher. Because Storyboard is an authoring program, it can be used with any kind of text.	The Teacher Program has full word-processing capabilities and allows the teacher to create exercises containing up to 99 items. Each item can have two to five choices, and each choice can be accompanied by a message which is displayed if the student selects that choice. Exercises may also contain an introduction screen and up to three scrolling help screens. with no pre-determined maximum length. The program also has a dual printer option, which allows the user to print out either a paper record for the teacher, or a paper exercise for the student.

 

 
 

No.	19	20
Programme	Textmixer	Vocab
Publisher (url, mail, home, telephone number, postal addraess, date of publication, etc)	Athelstan   http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .	Athelstan   http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .
Package  (number of CDs, manual, microphone, price, product number, ...)	Authoring programme and students programme.  up to five users (TxmDs-S): $ 99.00.  more than five users: (TxmDs-ES) $297.00.	Authoring programme and students programme.  up tp five users (VcbDs-S): $ 99.00.  more than five users (VcbDs-ES ): $297.00.
System requirements  - platform  - processor  - RAM  - free disk space  - video card  - sound card  - CD-ROM speed  - microphone  other	For DOS only.	For DOS only.
The programme  programme type       garde / year or special target group (e.g. business) levels  team or pair learning possible specially designed for teacher advised learning	Authoring programme for putting up jumbeld texts exercises; students` programm for solving the jumbeld text exercises. Elementary or older.  Beginners and Intermediate. No. Yes.	- Authoring and Students programme for developing voacabulary exercises.     All ages. Beginners and Intermediate.  No. Yes.
Content  number of units kind of exercises (fill-in tasks)	does not apply Jumbled senteces and paragraphs must be ordered by the student, who may use online help and hints to solve the task.	does not apply. Six different game like exercises including word scrabling, phrase completing and the like.
Multimedial scope  listening exercises oral exercises voice recording video clips internet online learning	no   no   no   no   no	No.  No.  No.  No.  No.
Producer`s comments:	Textmixer offers a range of help options which enable the student to adjust the difficulty level of the task and to adapt his or her approach to solving it. At any time, the student can: ask for one word, sentence, or paragraph to be placed in its correct position; see the immediate context of the current when working at the word level; see the whole text correctly; or see the introduction screen again.

 

 
 

No.	21	22
Programme	WordSteps	Wordstore
Publisher (url, mail, home, telephone number, postal addraess, date of publication, etc)	Athelstan   http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .	Athelstan   http://www.athel.com/ (4/10/99)  Athelstan  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .
Package  (number of CDs, manual, microphone, price, amount of vocabs, ...)	Individual licence (WrsMc-I): $ 49.00.  Site License (WrsMc-S): $149.00.	Up to 5 users (WdsDs-S): $ 99.00.  More than 5 users (WdsDs-ES): $297.00.
System requirements  - platform  - processor  - RAM  - free disk space  - video card  - sound card  - CD-ROM speed  - microphone  other	For Macintosh only.	For Macintosh and DOS.
The programme  programme type garde / year or special target group (e.g. business) levels  team or pair learning possible specially designed for teacher advised learning	Spelling and Alphabet recognition Programme. All ages. Beginners. No. No.	Database program designed to help language learners increase their vocabulary. Intermediate and Advanced. No. Yes.
Content  number of units kind of exercises (fill-in tasks)	User clicks on a talking alphabet or uses the talking keyboard to respond. Words range from three- and four-letter phonetic words to sight words with blends and multi-vowel combinations..	Wordstore comprises a Teacher programme, which enables teachers to create Wordstore files that are tailored to their students' needs. Entries are automatically sorted into alphabetical order to facilitate inquiries. The program allows up to 32 separate sets of entries to be kept in a single file, so that the student can organize his or her entries under different headings.
Multimedial scope  listening exercises oral exercises voice recording video clips internet online learning	Yes.  No.   No.   No.   No.	No.  No.  No.  No.  No.
Producer`s comments:

 

 
 

No.	23	24
Programme	E-Dict	Accelerated English (1-4)
Publisher (url, mail, home, telephone number, postal addraess, date of publication, etc)	Athelstan  http://www.athel.com/cobuild/edict.html  (4/10/99)  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .	Athelstan  http://www.athel.com/order/eslcd.html  (4/10/99)  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .
Package  (number of CDs, manual, microphone, price, amount of vocabs, ...)	One CD-ROM.  $69 costs.	Ac1Ds-I: $125.00.  Ac2Ds-I: $125.00  Ac3Ds-I: $125.00  Ac4Ds-I: $125.00  Set of all 4 CD-ROMs AceDs-I: $395.00
System requirements  - platform  - processor  - RAM  - free disk space  - video card  - sound card  - CD-ROM speed  - microphone  other	For Windows 3.1 or higher.	DOS and Windows only.
The programme  programme type    garde / year or special target group (e.g. business) levels  team or pair learning possible specially designed for teacher advised learning	Allround self learing programme.    Older than elementary. Intermediate. No. No.	TOEFEL and similar test preperation, allround English learning package. Adults and secondary school grades. Advanced. No. No.
Content  number of units kind of exercises (fill-in tasks)	Pronounciation, spelling and grammer erxercises.	Each disk of the series contains four or five scenes that develop into a TV-style drama. Listening and reading comprehension, dictation, and advanced usage and structure activities.
Multimedial scope  listening exercises oral exercises voice recording video clips internet online learning	Yes.   Yes.   Yes.   ?   No.	yes no   yes no   yes no   yes no   yes no
Producer`s comments:		Each CD in the series can be used for 20 – 40 hours of self-paced learning sessions.

 

 
 

No.	25	26
Programme	Active English (series).	Dynamic Classics (Series)
Publisher (url, mail, home, telephone number, postal addraess, date of publication, etc)	Athelstan  http://www.athel.com/order/eslcd.html  (4/10/99)  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.  Email: info@athel.com .	Athelstan  http://www.athel.com/order/eslcd.html  (4/10/99)  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.
Package  (number of CDs, manual, microphone, price, amount of vocabs, ...)	Individual CD-ROMs:  Ae1Ds-I $ 95.00  Ae2Ds-I $ 95.00  Ae3Ds-I $ 95.00  Ae4Ds-I $ 95.00  Activities :  (4 CD-ROMs) AeaDs-I $ 95.00  Complete Program:  AteDs-I $395.00  (8 CD-ROMs: set of 4 Active English CDs and the 4 Activities CDs)	Alice in Wonderland (AlwMD-I).  A Christmas Carol (ChcMD-I).  Robin Hood (RhoMD-I).  Round the World in Eighty Days (RtwMD-I).  Individual price for one CD-ROM with book: $ 69.00.  Set of all 4 CD-ROMS with books:   DycMD-I $199.00.
System requirements  - platform  - processor  - RAM  - free disk space  - video card  - sound card  - CD-ROM speed  - microphone  other	For Windows only.	Macintosh and DOS.
The programme  programme type garde / year or special target group (e.g. business) levels  team or pair learning possible specially designed for teacher advised learning	Listening proficiency training. Secondary school students, college and adult learners. Advanced.	Listening comprehension activities. Children age eight and up. Beginners. No. No.
Content  number of units kind of exercises (fill-in tasks)	Interactive Listening exercises. Active English is centered on a fictitious high school in Washington.	Listening to Audiobooks while watching the text that is read out. Repetition and comprehesion based tasks.
Multimedial scope  listening exercises oral exercises voice recording video clips internet online learning	Yes.  Yes.   Yes.   Yes.   No.	Yes.  No.  No.  ?  No.
Producer`s comments:	Written text versions of the  Spoken forms that can be switched on and off; adjustable pause length between sentences--from 0 up to 3  seconds; a glossary available on demand; and the ability to repeat the current segment, words, phrase, or  sentence as many times as desired. In addition, the program automatically adapts to the students, presenting more challenging variants of the material as questions are answered successfully. The difficulty level can be set manually by either the user or the instructor, and the activities can be selected in any  sequence according to the user's own interests and preferred learning style. Records available during and at the end of each session can be used by the student to chart his or her own progress.

 

 
 

No.	27	28
Programme	Dynamic English	English Vocabulary
Publisher (url, mail, home, telephone number, postal addraess, date of publication, etc)	Athelstan  http://www.athel.com/order/eslcd.html  (4/10/99)  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543.	Athelstan  http://www.athel.com/order/eslcd.html  (4/10/99)  2476 Bolsover, Suite 464   Houston, TX 77005   U.S.A.  Tel: (800) 598-3880 (U.S. only)  (713) 523-2837  Fax: (713) 523-6543
Package  (number of CDs, manual, microphone, price, amount of vocabs, ...)	Level One De1MD-I $ 495.00.  Level Two De2MD-I $ 495.00.  Level Three De3MD-I $ 495.00.  Complete Program DenMD-I $1295.00  (6 CD-ROMs with Instructor's Manual).	Comparison EvcMW-I: $ 65.00.  Going Places EvgMW-I: $ 59.00.  Home EvhMW-I $: 59.00.  Location EvlMW-I: $ 65.00.  School & Work EvwMW-I: $ 59.00.  Shopping EvsMW-I: $ 59.00.  Complete Program EvoMW-I: $299.00  (6 CD-ROMs).
System requirements  - platform  - processor  - RAM  - free disk space  - video card  - sound card  - CD-ROM speed  - microphone  other	For Macintosh and DOS.	For Macintosh and DOS.
The programme  programme type garde / year or special target group (e.g. business) levels  team or pair learning possible specially designed for teacher advised learning	Listening Comprehesion. Pupils older than elementary school age. Beginners, pre-intermediates. No. No.	- Vocabulary trainer for high-frequently used words.
Content  number of units kind of exercises (fill-in tasks)	Topics: Names and Places, Jobs and Family, Numbers and Time, Likes and Dislikes, Planning Ahead, Energy Sources, Directions, and Our World. Mainly listening exercises. -	- Each CD-ROM contains vocabulary presentation reviewing exercises and game units.  - Tests and guessing games, listening exercises.
Multimedial scope  listening exercises oral exercises voice recording video clips internet online learning	Yes.  Yes.   Yes.   No.  No.	Yes.   No.  Yes.  No.  No.
Producer`s comments:	Dynamic English is available in versions with native language audio support in Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Italian, and French. It is also available in an English-only version for multilingual  classrooms.	Using a topic-based approach, each part of the program explores subjects which interest language learners. The CD-quality sound renders clear, authentic speech, while the interactive activities are visually appealing, cognitively  Stimulating, and entertaining--all of which keep users engaged with the topic.

 

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