Teaching basic phonology through phonology in BASIC

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Donald Becker

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The contributors to the glossy computer hobbyist publications that dot the magazine racks of bookstores and supermarkets these days in ever-increasing numbers would have us believe that the day is rapidly approaching when personal computers will be as common in American households as toasters. While such extravagant claims are admittedly somewhat suspect, the booming sales of TRS 80's, Apple I I's, Commodore Pets, and other home computers should make educators in all fields begin to devote some serious thought to how they might modify their teaching in order to reap the greatest pedagogical rewards from the unprecedented availability of sophisticated computer hardware and the resultant growth in their average student's computer literacy. Linguists especially should, I think, be quick to realize that the machines they buy to balance their checkbooks, each their children arithmetic, and serve as their chess partners can prove quite useful in their teaching as well.

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