Theoretical Supports for CALL

Community

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• A community is a group who shares a common territory.
• The most important elements:
• mutual interdependence among members, sense of belongings, connectedness, trust, interactivity, common expectations, shared values and goals, and overlapping histories among members.
• ---- (Rovai, 2002)

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• It is not every classroom of learners that can reach the stage of becoming a community of learners. (Williams and Burden, 1997)
• Affordances of creating an online learning community:
• 1. Give students a sense of belonging
• 2. Student remain anonymous
• 3. Give students an equal chance to respond
• 4. Develop different kinds of skills
• e.g. organizing and planning learning activities, working collaboratively,
• giving and receiving feedback, etc. (Boud, 2002)