Price in Australian dollars $59 plus $17 postage and handling
Available for both Macintosh and IBM platforms, "Language in
Contexts" is a CD-ROM for introducing some aspects of
functional discourse analysis to students. The program is
designed to take the user into 7 different settings where they
can access videoclips of authentic language samples.
These settings are:
• a university
• a lawyer's office
• a restaurant
• a school
• a winery
• a doctor's surgery
• a hairdresser's
Transcripts of the interactions are provided, along with focus
questions. Various functional linguistic analyses are introduced
by means of interactive exercises. The program can be used by:
• students of linguistics and communications
• advanced students of English as a Second Language
• professionals, such as teachers, doctors and lawyers, with
an interest in workplace communication
For further information:
The Media Production Unit
Edith Cowan University
Pearson St, Churchlands
Western Australia 6018
Telephone: (618) 9273 8293 Fax: (618) 9273 8029
Email: t.george@cowan.edu.au
http://www.cowan.edu.au/lrn_sys/flexprod.htm