Transcript COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNINGx

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CALL is not a method. It is a tool that helps
teachers to facilitate language learning
process.
CALL can be used to reinforce what has been
learned in the classrooms. It can also be used
as remedial to help learners with limited
language proficiency.
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CALL can be made independent of the
Internet. It can stand alone for example in a
CDROM format.
Depending on its design and objectives, it
may include a substantial interactive element
especially when CALL is integrated in webbased format
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Behavioristic CALL: 1960s language laboratories
with cassette players and headphones. Drill labs.
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Communicative CALL : It usually taught skills such
as reading and listening in a restricted way, even if
not in a drill fashion.
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Integrative CALL (Multimedia and the Internet):
starting from the 1990s, tries to address these
criticisms by integrating the teaching of language
skills into tasks or projects multimedia technology
(providing text, graphics, sound and animation)
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Self access language learning centres
In self-access learning, the focus is on
developing learner autonomy through
varying degrees of self-directed learning by
using CALL.
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Motivation.
Adapting learning to the student: on their time
at their own pace and level.
Authenticity: The opportunity to interact in one
or more of the four skills (reading, writing,
listening, speaking) by using or producing texts
meant for an audience in the target language,
not the classroom. With real communication
acts, rather than teacher-contrived ones.
Critical thinking skills: more active processing
resulting in higher-order thinking skills and
better recall.
 The first is the limitations of the
technology itself: ability to use it and
availability in the institution.
 Cost.
 Availability of technological resources
such as the Internet
 Teacher training: lack of trained
teachers, and the need for adopting new
teacher roles to guide students.
What is language
learning software?
Software sold in stores
and on line. To learn a
language interactively.
 An example is the
Rosetta stone series.
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BBC LANGUAGE SERIES
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In addition, there are many online websites supporting
language learning. A teacher may guide the students to
the best websites to practice and improve their
language:
http://www.1-language.com http://a4esl.org/
http://www.agendaweb.org/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/in
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http://www.eslcafe.com http://eleaston.com
http://www.smic.be/ http://www.englishbanana.com/
http://www.englishclub.com/support/sitemap.htm
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The Hot Potatoes is a program available on
line for teachers to use in their teaching:
It includes six applications, enabling you to
create interactive multiple-choice, shortanswer, jumbled-sentence, crossword,
matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for
the World Wide Web.
Hot Potatoes is freeware, meaning it is free
for download and you may use it for any
purpose or project you like.
Blogs, wikis and RSS are often held up
as exemplary manifestations of Web 2.0.
 A reader of a blog or a wiki is provided
with tools to add a comment or even, in
the case of the wiki, to edit the content.
 This is what we call the Read/Write web.
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The term "Web 2.0" is commonly associated
with web applications that facilitate
interactive information-sharing, on the World
Wide Web.
A Web 2.0 site allows its users to interact with
each other as contributors to the website's
content
 You tube , teacher tube
teachertube.com
 Voice threads: voicethread.com
 Wikkis: wikkispaces.com
 Blogs: blogger.com
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It is an interactive web system that links the
teacher, the institution, and the students online.
The institution (university, school …) is responsible
for providing teachers and students with this
system and managing it.
The courses are laid out on line with unlimited
possibilities of quizzes, schedules, exercises,
announcements, discussion boards,…..
Teachers and students communicate more
effectively.
Enhances learner independence.