CALL

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
initializ
ed.
 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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