What’s the Secret to Learning a Second Language? (salon.com) – talks about language acquisition methods, with contributions from Middlebury’s own Michael Geisler.
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The knowledge-weighted vocabulary practice the article talks about as a feature of the LinguaStep program sounds a lot like the StudyDB program Alex developed back in 2001 and which is in use by the Russian, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic departments.
http://sites.middlebury.edu/studydb-docs-startpages/
http://studydb.middlebury.edu/
It’s a pretty innovative use of technology in second language acquisition, but one that isn’t widely known.