The document discusses the concept of hypertext, which allows non-sequential reading and linking of information. It was first proposed by Vannevar Bush as a way to organize the rapidly increasing amount of information. Hypertext enables users to explore any document without starting from the beginning. It can also link text to other media like graphics, animation or sound, known as hypermedia. Some benefits of hypertext include ease of tracing references, customizing documents, and collaboration. Challenges include orientation within the network and finding available information. Hypertext has applications in business, education, and personal learning. It can be used to create personalized tutorials and is well-suited for language learning across different skills.

1. OVERVIEW

2. CONCEPT OF HYPERTEXT
 BUSH Memex ( Memory Extender)
 A sort of mechanized private file and library
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 Massive scientific information was increasing
more & more rapidly fast It is more
difficult to follow the information ( information
overloaded)

3. WHAT IS HYPERTEXT ?
 Hypertext means Non-Sequential Reading
and Writing Allows a user to link
information together.
 Hypertext system Enable users to
explore or open any information available in
any document without starting from the first
document sequentially

4. Content
A B C
SCREEN
F E D

5. HYPERTEXT & HYPERMEDIA
 There is a possibility of connecting hypertext with
other media such as graphics, animation or sound.
 The only content distinction between hypertext and
hypermedia is just text.

6.  Ease of tracing references
 Ease of creating new references
 Information structuring
 Global view
 Customized documents
 Modularity of information
 Consistency of information
 Task stacking
 Collaboration

7.  The orientation problems are :
1. Where is the user in the network?
2. What information is available?
3. How can the user get to it?
Smith (1988:39) and Conklin

8.  Enables users to navigate and brows information.
1. Business
a. Product catalogues and Advertisements.
b. Newsletters and new magazines.
2. Information Resources
a. College catalogues and departement guides.
b. Scientific journals, abstract, and indexes.
3. Personal Learning
a. On-Line help and technical documentation.
b. Hypernovels and hyperpoems.

9.  A hypertext system gives individual attention
to a learner or user, at the console and
replies to the system.
 The hypertext can be utilized for educational
proposes, such as for creating a personal
learning tutorial which is commonly known as
the Computer Assisted Learning (CAL).

10. Hypertext in Language
Learning
 The capability of hypertext
Interactive capability and flexibility
as a computer medium
 It can be implemented in learning all
language skills: Listening (e.g.
Listening for specific details),
Speaking (e.g. Discussion Skills),
Reading (e.g. Topic and Main Idea),
Writing (e.g Thesis Statement)