Research on programming for creating three dimensional multimedia linguistic and cultural information atlas, and its application to language teaching

首先，这项研究始于1995年，在国家科学研究信贷的帮助下，旨在尝试在瑞士罗曼什语地区进行语言接触的地理语言学模拟，使用计算处理进行基本语言数据分析。我们可以成功地将语言数据转换为数字化材料，以三维语言和文化地图的形式开发一种新的展示方法。这项研究已经给出了两个主要优点：我们现在可以对语言领域中的语言接触现象提出一个更加综合和现实的观点，而且我们很快就可以将这些成果应用到一个广阔的连续研究领域，如多媒体交互式语言教学法等。最后，在最近的研究中，我们开发了几种交互式语言教学工具供教师使用，使用JacaScript和其他三维多媒体技术。

Firstly this research, starting in 1995 with aid of National scientific research credit, aimed to try a geolinguistic simulation of language contact in the Swiss Romansh language area, using computational processing for basic linguistic data analysis.In this term of investigation for 1999-2000, we could successfully convert linguistic data into digitalized material to develop a new method of presentation in form of three dimensional linguistic and cultural atlas. The research has given already two main merits : we can now present a more synthetic and realistic view of language contact phenomena in the linguistic area in question, as well as we will soon be able to apply these results into a vast contiguous research field like multimedia interactive method of language teaching etc.Finally, in recent studies, we have developed several interactive language teaching tools for teachers' use, with JacaScript and other three-dimensional multimedia technologies.