Teaching Materials

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Hangul Writer

The HangulWriter is a video-integrated interactive computer software. Developed in 1992, it is one of the pioneering works in CAI (computer-assisted instruction) in Korean. Based on the textbooks developed by the program, the software teaches beginners how to read and write hangul as little as in two weeks without romanization of its sounds. HangulWriter consists of three parts: Word association, Spelling, and Dialog.

Video features were added to HangulWriter in 1994, and the revised version was donated to several Korean programs, domestic and overseas: Brown University, Smith College, Pennsylvania State University, Utah State University, and Rice University in the U.S.A., and University of London and University of Sheffield in United Kingdom. Copies of the software were given away to faculty members and researchers at the University of Georgia and other educational institutions, who wanted to study Korean independently.

Recently, we have received requests from the Korean community in the Metro-Atlanta area to make the software available to Korean-American children. HangulWriter was demonstrated to the members of American Association of Teachers of Korean in their annual conference held in Los Angeles in summer, 1996 and was well received by them. The software is currently being revised and expanded on the basis of the feedback from its users.

 

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