COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
Computer-Assisted Language Learning or
CALL is a concept in language education. CALL
is essentially a tool that helps teachers to facilitate the language learning
process.
It can be used to reinforce what has been already learned in the classroom or to help learners who require additional support.
Beatty (2003) defines CALL as ‘any process in which a learner uses a computer, and as a result, improves his or her language’.
It can be used to reinforce what has been already learned in the classroom or to help learners who require additional support.
Beatty (2003) defines CALL as ‘any process in which a learner uses a computer, and as a result, improves his or her language’.
the
main aim of CALL is to find ways for using computers for the purpose of
teaching and learning the language. CALL is including word processing,
presentation packages, guided drill and practice, tutor simulation, problem solving,
games ect. CALL can be categorized in terms of three somewhat distinct phases
which I will refer to as behavioristic CALL, communicative CALL,
and integrative CALL (cf. Barson
& Debski 1996). Behaviorist theories of learning entailed repetitive language
drills and can be referred to as "drill and practice". In other words
the computer serves as a vehicle for delivering instructional materials to the
student. The second phase of CALL was based on the communicative approach to
teaching which became prominent in the 1970s and 80s. Proponents of this
approach felt that the drill and practice programs of the previous decade did
not allow enough authentic communication to be of much value.
The
history of CALL suggests that the computer can serve a variety of uses for
language teaching. It can be a tutor which offers language drills or skill
practice; a stimulus for discussion and interaction; or a tool for writing and
research. With the advent of the Internet, it can also be a medium of global
communication and a source of limitless authentic materials.
By
using the CALL , teacher can teach more interactively and atractively. But the
teacher have to be able to operate the computer, because CALL is the computer
assisted language learning.
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