"Textana"--Text Production in a Hypertext Environment

Abstract This paper reports on the fast, exploratory, phase of a CALL project for German. The project endeavours to combine experience in the fields of traditional CALL and hypertext applications with the approach of the theory of formulating. The aim is to produce a package that will enable students of German to develop their reading and writing skills, and learn new vocabulary and syntactical structures. At the same time, this program attempts to help them to enhance their knowledge and competence in the production of demanding sorts of text, such as a text commentary. In the first phase an experimental version of this program was produced that comprises a reading comprehension module and a guided tour through the production of a text.