FLAX (Flexible Language Acquisition) aims to automate the production and delivery of interactive digital language collections. Simple interfaces, designed for learners and teachers, are combined with powerful language analysis tools. Exercise material comes from digital libraries for a virtually endless supply of authentic language learning in context.

URL

http://flax.nzdl.org/greenstone3/flax?a=fp&sa=library

Features

Download support

Full-text search

Subject areas

Foreign Languages

Social Sciences

Languages

English

Type

Repository (contents)

Additional information

FLAX is a project by the University of Waikato (New Zealand).

Objective: to automate the production and delivery of practice exercises for overseas students who are learning English. The exercises will involve students in a virtually endless supply of collaborative and competitive language activities that are interesting, compelling, and rewarding.

Strategy: to deploy digital library software to allow teachers and students to capitalise on top-quality prose and multimedia resources already present in the world's libraries. This yields an unprecedented supply of linguistic material for students to practise on.

Presentation: to provide a web-based social setting, matching in real time students in different locations who opt for a particular type of exercise, allowing them to discuss and negotiate its parameters using chat, and undertake activities that are competitive or collaborative.

Comments / evaluation

More information on FLAX can be found here: http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/handle/10289/9146

(FLAX: Flexible and open corpus-based language collections development)

Submitted by Andrea Spila
30/04/2015
in the project Sample Library of OERs

last updated 07/05/2015