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Goethezitat (leicht geändert): "Habe nun, ach! Technologie, Philologie und Literatur, und leider auch Javascript durchaus studiert mit heißem Bemühen."
1983: ACTFL OPI training AND negotiated first computer for PSU FLL!! (=proficiency-oriented pedagogy AND computer-assisted language instruction (CALI, CALL, "TALI / TALL"??)
A time of language labs - but then the Walkman Revolution
But before that:
~1958 tried to teach myself German, Russian, Japanese (didn't work)
1962 built my first computer (it could play tic-tac-toe - and only that)
1963-65 German classes at Grants Pass High School
1965-69 German major (literature, of course) in college
1979 PhD in German (literature, of course)
1978 to PSU: started to hear about "proficiency" from Lou Elteto, who was early into computers
1988 publication of "Wie, bitte? Introductory German for Proficiency", including a software package; much DTP and other production brought to PSU (~$55, 000)