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Telecommunications Simulation: Europe 1992

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Elizabeth Klobusicky-Mailänder
Elizabeth Klobusicky-Mailänder
Affiliation:
Karlsruhe College, W Germany
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When Professor Jonathan Wilkenfeld presented ICONS to a group of staff and students from Karlsruhe College in Spring 1989 and subsequently let us in as “observers” of the ongoing simulation, we hardly suspected what a radically new kind of learning experience awaited us in an ordinary language class when we participated “for real” in Autumn 1989.

Type
Research Article
Information
ReCALL , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , May 1990 , pp. 12 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1990

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Notes

1. International Communication and Negotiation Simulations, “a world-wide, multi-institutional, computer assisted simulation that thrusts students into the world of high-powered international negotiations”, developed by Prof. J. Wilkenfeld and Prof. R.D. Brecht, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, with the National Council on Foreign Language and International Studies, New York.

2. The simulation software, POLNET II, was created to permit a combination of on-line conferencing and an exchange of messages through e-mail. The program permits the user to write, retrieve, send, and receive messages. The host computer, a Micro vax II (“Globe”) at the University of Maryland, can be reached from any PC equipped with communications software and a modem or acoustic coupler. From Germany we connected with Maryland via the Datex-P net and a series of passwords. Our specific configuration was as follows:

IBM AT 286

Procomm Communications Software

1200 Baud full-duplex acoustic coupler

HP Laserjet Series II printer.

3. Bass, Doreen, “Europe and the United States: The Dawn of a New Decade?”, ICONS Simulation Scenario, University of Maryland, Autumn 1989 Exercise.Google Scholar