STORYBOARD and Communicative Language Learning: Results of the Düsseldorf CALL Project

The paper is concerned with the evaluation of Computer Assisted Language Learn-ing software. A specific CALL program, STORYBOARD, was assessed in a foreign lan-guage learning context. The results of our experiments which are described in detail show that this program is of interest both as a traditional text reconstruction exercise and as a tool in second language writing activities. When applied conventionally, the program seems to promote language awareness, when used as a word processor it seems to motivate the students to produce highly structured and grammatically well-formed texts.