My Masters Project

The research project for my Monash University master's degree, "Real English - Authoring Multimedia Listening Comprehension Exercises for English Language Students" (1996), is available here.
Wiser Educator, the software I designed for this project, was published by Wiser Software in 1997. Wiser Educator was used to create a box set of four commercial CALL CD-ROMs: Wiser Business, Travel, Entertainment & Sport.


Project Abstract
Wiser Educator is a new authoring program currently under development by the author for the rapid and simple creation of interactive multimedia English language listening comprehension exercises using any kind of audio or visual media as the primary input.

This project critically examines the aims, rationale and design of this program within a framework derived from a review of current literature in second language acquisition (SLA), communicative language teaching (CLT), computer assisted instruction (CAI) and computer assisted language learning CALL). On the basis of this analysis, the project then outlines a series of refinements, enhancements, additions and developments for the program and discusses the implications on further research and development of the Real English project. The project concludes with a discussion on the future of such programs in the context of the emerging global multimedia computer network.