`Click and Listen': A Case Study of the Development of a CALL Package

We describe the resourcing, development, use and evaluation of interactive multimedia courseware in language and linguistics teaching and learning at three institutions of higher education in Edinburgh who collaborated on thèClick and Listen' project. It also addresses several topics, arising from our experiences with`Click and Listen', some that are of relevence to CAL generally and others that are particularly salient to CAL in the sphere of linguistic education. They are: Beneets, Added Value and Good Practice (which touch inevitably on the related areas of professional and vocational training); Functional and Cultural Integration and Present and Future Perspectives. 1 Background Having created a networking infrastructure (EaStMAN) to link higher education institutions in East Central Scotland, in August 1995, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council (SHEFC) invited bids in an open competition for nances to resource the hardware, software and training requirements of projects. This MANs (Metropolitan Area Networks) Initiative welcomed applications to fund projects to develop new materials, or in some cases adapt existing applications and materials, for use in teaching and learning activities in institutions who wished to collaborate with each other to utilise and exploit the technological capabilities and potential of the newly-created MAN. ThèClick and Listen' project resulted from a successful bid and received funding for applications and materials development and personnel training. The remit of the project was to develop an interactive, computer-based click-and-listen package as a teaching/learning aid and resource for basic Phonetics and Phonology. Its primary concern has been with Scots and Scottish English which are particularly under-resourced in teaching materials of any kind.