Topic 2: CALL in language education

 

CALL in language education

Dr.Giftsy Dorcas E. (2023a, 27 de noviembre). Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) [Video]. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFNPiCTTp48

Benefits:

Error analisis, individualization, immediate feedback, a compatible learning style, interest and motivation, iptimal use of learning time, guided and repetitive practice and pre-determined to process syllabus.

Disadvantages:

Increased educational costs, lack of trained Ts, imperfect current CALL programs, less-handy equipment and inability to handle unexpected situations.

Pavlou, C. (2022). Face-off: The advantages and disadvantages of online training [Imagen]. TalentLMS Blog. https://www.talentlms.com/blog/online-training-advantages-disadvantages/

CALL - an Interdisciplinary Domain

• Psychology
• Second Language Acquisition
• A.I
• Computational Linguistics
• Instructional Technology and Design
• Human Computer Interaction

Call stages:

•  The structural CALL (1960's - 1980's)
• Mainframe
• Grammar-Translation and Audio-Lingual
• - The communicative CALL (1980's - 1990's)
• PCs
• Communicative Lg. Teaching.
• -The integrative CALL (1990's to 21st c.)
• Multimedia Internet-based appl.
• Content-Based, Task-Based, Project-based, ESP, EAP.

CALL Evaluation:

• The need to determine the relevance of functional aspects and content.
•  Language both in terms of effective content presentation and productive learning software

interactions need to be explored.

• Teacher and leader satisfaction is an additional important consideration in any meaningful evaluation.
•  Effectiveness of integrating self-learning strategies and navigation programs into course materials be taken into account.
• Level of progress and results achieved using the course material given check, but difficult to measure.
•  Guidelines for the most effective learning scenarios required for different types of course materials
• Participate in the evaluation and verification of whether the course material is most suitable for use in the classroom, self-study or within the framework of distance learning cooperation.