The importance of materials in supporting learners' self-motivation in computer-mediated learning

Criticism of interactive multimedia programs on Cd-Tom is sometimes trenchant, as some of them are considered unable to explore in an imaginative way the educational potential of new generation computers. It is therefore of paramount importance to porvide a pedagogical framework for computer-assisted instruction and to have the high standards of the hardware matched by software applications, by means of a close co-operation between linguistic and computer experts.