CALL

CALL

1. Meaning

   • Computer Assisted Language Learning
     • The search for and study of applications of the computer in language teaching learning.

2. 1980

   • specific attention to teacher centered education.
     • allows us to account for other technologies such as multi-media and internet driven software and hardware.

3. Interactivity

   • Learners interact with the computer, using the stimulus/response/feedback paradigm.
     • Stimulus, can be text, video or images.
     • Learner responses are recorded.
     • Feedback, provided by computer with ext, images, video or audio.

4. Software

   • Content-specific, CDROMs, CDs
     • Teachers must adapt to the contents.
   • Designed to promote explicit or implied language learning objectives.

5. Content - free

   • Instructor specifies the contents. the software uses it as a data for pre programmed activities.

6. PLATO

   • Programmed Logic for Automatic Teaching Operations. Provide, interactive, self paced instruction for large number of students.
     • Students participate in written communication online.

7. Benefits

   • Learners use different materials, they use the tatrget language, they have diffrenet activities, they can work in pairs,, gropus, etc.., it gives favorable environments.

8. Constraints

   • Sense of isolation in users, Sometimes they can nothave ennough practice of the language with their peers, availability and coosts of the use of technology, talking about since the computer until the internet and many other things they must need.