1. Yasemin Ylmazer Seda Kalaycolu Latife Palta Zeynep Uar
COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
2. OUTLINE What is CALL ? History of CALL Application of CALL
Advantages and Disadvantages Conclusion
3. What is CALL ? Levy ( 1997:1) defines CALL more broadly as
the search for and study of applications of the computer in
language teaching and learning.
4. Computers being used for language learning since 1960s
Behaviorist CALL, Communicative CALL, Integrative CALL Certain
level of technology and certain pedagogical theories HISTORY OF
CALL
5. Behaviorist CALL The first form of CALL ( in the 1960s- 70s)
Repetitive language drills Based on the behaviorist learning model
First designed and implemented in the era of PLATO System (Mainly
used for extensive drills, explicit grammar instruction, and
translation tests)
6. Communicative CALL Emerged in the 1970s and 1980s A reaction
to the Behaviorist approach to language learning Focusing more on
using forms rather than on the forms themselves Grammar should be
taught implicitly, students should create original sentences
Corresponds to cognitive theories Cognitive theories Creative
process of discovery, expression, and development Personal
computers Software used in the era included text reconstruction
programmers and simulations
7. Integrative CALL The most recent stage of CALL Integrating
technology more fully into language teaching Communicative CALL
being criticized for using the computer in an ad hoc and
disconnected fashion Teachers moving away from a cognitive view of
communicative language teaching to a socio-cognitive view (Real
language use in a meaningful, authentic context)
Multimedia-networked computers (Provides a range of informational,
communicative, and publishing tools available to every
student)
8. WHAT ARE THE MAIN ROLES OF COMPUTERS PLAY LANGUAGE
CLASSROOMS?
9. COMPUTER AS TUTOR IN CLASSROOM. - To function as a tutor in
some subject, the computer must be programmed by "experts" in
programming and in that subject. -The computer presents some
subject material, the student responds, the computer evaluates the
response, and, from the results of the evaluation, determines what
to present next.
10. COMPUTER AS TOOL IN CLASSROOM. To function as a tool, the
classroom computer need only have some useful capability programmed
into it such as statistical analysis, calculation, or word
processing. For learners, it assists reading, allow students to
produce and arrange texts easily. Ex: Word processing program
.
11. COMPUTER AS TUTEE. To use the computer as tutee is to tutor
the computer; for that, the student or teacher doing the tutoring
must learn to program, to talk to the computer in a language it
understands. The computer makes a good "tutee" because of its
dumbness, its patience, its rigidity, and its capacity for being
initialized.
12. Advantages and Disadvantages of CALL Advantages Interest
and motivation Individualization Appropriate learning style
Effective use of learning time Immediate feedback Error
analysis
13. Advantages Guided and repetitive practice Being able to get
materials that would not be reached in real life
14. Disadvantages Less-handy equipment Economical factors Lack
of trained teachers Insufficient speaking programs Inability to
handle unexpected situations
