COMPUTER ASSISTED

LANGUAGE LEARNING

Yasemin Yılmazer
Seda Kalaycıoğlu
Latife Palta
Zeynep Uçar
 OUTLINE
 What is CALL ?
 History of CALL
 Application of CALL
 Advantages and Disadvantages
 Conclusion
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.
 HISTORY OF CALL
• Computers being used for
language learning since 1960’s

• Behaviorist CALL,
Communicative CALL,
Integrative CALL

• Certain level of technology and

certain pedagogical theories
 Behaviorist CALL

 The first form of CALL ( in the 1960’s-

70’s)
 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)
 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
 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)
WHAT ARE THE MAIN ROLES OF
COMPUTERS PLAY LANGUAGE
CLASSROOMS?
 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.
  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
  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.
 Advantages and
Disadvantages of CALL
Advantages
 Interest and motivation

 Individualization

 Appropriate learning style

 Effective use of learning time

 Immediate feedback

 Error analysis
Advantages
 Guided and repetitive practice

 Being able to get materials that would not be reached

in real life
Disadvantages
 Less-handy equipment

 Economical factors

 Lack of trained teachers

 Insufficient speaking programs

 Inability to handle unexpected

situations
 AS A
CONCLUSION…
THANKS FOR
LISTENING
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