Furthermore, there will be an annotated network resource list. When students first come to university they have to find methods in mastering the huge amount of new information. Linguistic theory is quite abstract and they have to understand small bits of difficult data and interrelate them. Moreover, they have to establish a network that interrelates the information since the data can not be seen independently, but correlates to one big theory. Especially in introductory courses linguistics students are taken through the entire fields of the science and there is often no time to deal with the subparts sufficiently.
Teachers face the problem of finding the appropriate teaching methods and tools.
It creates a straight linearity of the theory which is not the case, because various contexts interrelate. Trying to understand the interrelatedness of topics, but getting them presented in a lineaer way might confuse the student. The theory has to be seen as a network and students have to become aware of the interrelatedness of the subjects and have to see them from different viewpoints in various contexts. With the help of the computer the limitation of the linear textbook can be overcome, because the student does not have to follow the linear path through the textbook. With hypertext the student can jump between the topics and can more easily interrelate them.