^*PREFACE\*
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Keith Cameron, University of Exeter
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One of the
characteristics of the good teacher is the ability to keep abreast of developments
in his own discipline and to adapt developments in other disciplines to
his own. The task of the Modern Language specialist is great:
to keep her or himself informed not only about linguistic changes and tendencies,
but also about the trends in all aspects of the civilization of the country whose
language he teaches. In the 1960s, aware of the need to introduce students
to the niceties of the spoken language, Modern Language specialists
developed the technology of another discipline and produced the language
laboratory. More recently, there has been a considerable advance in the construction
of computers and they have become widely available within schools and colleges.
They are increasingly attracting the attention of linguists. There has been
general agreement
about the need to find a means of helping learners to remem . . .
