CALL design and evaluation

CALL design and evaluation

1. Levy and Stockwell (2006) recognize three general approaches here: checklists, methodological frameworks and applications of SLA principles:

   • Methodological frameworks attempt to describe the key elements involved in making selection decisions in a more descriptive fashion than checklists, aiding users in what to look for and how to look for it while maintaining an diagnostic view of what specifically constitutes good language teaching in a given setting (Hubbard, 1996).
   • The SLA-based approach to evaluation is best exemplified by the work of Chapelle (2001), who identifies six researchbased criteria for the evaluation of CALL tasks that can be used for both judgemental and empirical evaluation.
   • Checklists, especially those used by teachers and others to determine whether or not to use a given program in their classes, have been and remain the most common approach to the evaluation of both. software and tasks