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Computer Assisted Language Learning is a method that was used from the 1960, as far as it can be tracked back. It was taught that it was simply the aid of the computers in a class for a presentation. But it has a deeper meaning than this. CALL is a great method that has been helping language learning for many years to be more effective and easier but just like everything in life, CALL also has its disadvantages. For the 30 years that CALL has been known and used it has also developed in some areas and they are divided in three areas which are; Behavioristic CALL, Communicative CALL and integrative CALL.
"The search for and study of applications of the computer in language teaching and learning" (Davies, 2011). This is the definition that is given by Levy and it is the definition in which many CALL practitioners agree with. CALL was used in the 1960s but just in the 1970s it was confined in the universities. The Plato project was begun in the late 1960 in the University of Chicago Illinois but with the development of the personal computers (PC) CALL grew its range in audience. This resulted in the boon of its development (Davies, 2011). Since the late 1970s CALL has been an important area of research since there is still a ton of theories, information and ideas that are waiting to be discovered.
area, the advantage is the following, brings about changes in the teaching methodologies of English, (Domingo, 2011). The disadvantage that comes with this advantage is the fact that teachers only use the computer to fill in the blank, that is that they put the student in front of the computers just to fill in the gap exercises.
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