From 1960s to 2013

Computers

started to being used in the 1950s and the first Call was introduced in the 1960s on university mainframe computers to facilitate researches at universities campuses, with the project PLATO (programmed logic learning for automated teaching operations), in the University of Illinois CALL was developed as an important landmark, most of the language learning work was done in teaching Russian using a grammar translation approach.

In the 1970s and 1980s computers were classified in mainframe computers/mini-computers and microcomputer which brought computing with a wider audience and then in the 1980s many CALL programs publications and books were developed.

Nowadays there are still CALL programs available on the internet and others that are available only at university language courses.

The

programs that included in the CALL typology were gap-filling/cloze programs/multiplechoice/simulations/action mazes and others. In 1985 David & Higgins identified a wide range of different types of CALL programs, but since the 1990s it has become more difficult to categorize CALL because it has been extended to the use of blogs, wikis, social networking, and podcasting; all programs changing has the reason to improve our learning knowledge.

WHY TO USE CALL?