Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Re CALL

Hi,i absolutely happy to have the chance to share with you all.CALL is simplyComputer assisted language learning. It focuses not on a technical descriptionof hardware and software, but rather on the pedagogical atmosphere that teachershave considered in using computers in classroom and how computers can sustainlearning and teaching foreign language and how can be an exciting and rewardingexperince since computers are used to enhance and facilitate communications,creating social and instructional environment as well.Language learners can communicate directly and conveniently with otherlearners or speakers of the target language no matter where they live and howfar they are away and what the oppropriate time which they can communicate. Allthese things are now possible with this fascinatcd technology you can click toaccess to the information from your school, work, or home so people all aroundthe world can participate to compose messages, conversations at their suitabletime just by typing at their keyboards. It also allows not only one to onecommunication, but also one to many ,allowing a teacher or student to share amessage with a small group, the whole class, a partenr class or internatonaldiscussion list of hundreds or thousands of people.In terms of the three theories namely the behaviorism CALL, cognitivismCALL,and the constructivism CALL. It is obvious that the three theories arestands on a different point of view which they are varying from theteacher-centred as in behaviorism or the student- centred as in the cognitivismor both as in the constructivism. In my point of view in applying these theoriesin learning and teaching a second language I extremely fellow what the author"Brown" had illustrated in his book "principles of language learning andteaching " is that your theory of teaching is your theory of learning "stood onits head" p.8 .

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