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This booklet discusses the growing interrelationship between multicultural education and technologically defined media education. First, literature on multicultural education is reviewed, and five separate approaches are identified: human relations; teaching the culturally different; cultural democracy; single-group studies; and multicultural and social reconstructionist education. Next, varieties of media-based instruction are examined: computer-based education; network-based learning; distance education; open learning; and various levels and forms of technology used. Some basic trends within multimedia language instruction are discussed, including the historical convergence of language teaching and instructional media, the shift in emphasis from computer-assisted teaching to computer-enhanced learning, and shifts in the language teacher's role. Related issues being explored by the profession are also noted, including consideration of learning environment, quality of input, quality of communication, the concept of the structure of language, errors, and quality of learning. The booklet concludes by discussing the relationship of various technologies to meaningful language learning. (Contains 88 references.) (MSE)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert