Posted by Orlando Garcia on April 6, 2005
Digitizing Dunhuang: The Virtual Recreation of a Mediaeval Library Cave by Imre Galambos, Overseas Project Manager, IDP, British Library The opening of the Dunhuang cave library in the early 1900’s has been the largest discovery of medieval manuscripts ever. The world’s earliest and largest paper archive, the cave’s contents included many unique documents, including the…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on March 21, 2001
Changing Relationships Between Context and Communication from Pre-Language to Post-Language by Marth C. Pennington, Powdrill Professor English Language Acquisition, University of Luton, England A review of the changing contexts of communication in relation to the development in human history of spoken and written language, looking at the trends in oracy and literacy including the impact…
Posted by Mark Kaiser on February 17, 1998
The purpose of this colloquium is to initiate a discussion on some of the issues raised by the use of computer technology for the development of literacy, be it in a first or in a second language. What kinds of formal and contextual constraints does the medium impose on the creation of texts? What kind…