COMPUTER ASSISTED

LANGUAGE LEARNING

UNIDAD 1
Foundations and Components of CALL

TEMA 2:
CALL in language education

Mgs. Jorge Zambrano Pachay

To Start

In your group: https://global-eng.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/course/call.html

1. Define, What is CALL for you?

Objective

Identify the principal features of this theory as a new

learning strategy.
 Benefits of CALL

Interest and A compatible Immediate

motivation learning style feedback

Optimal use of
Individualization Error análisis
learning time

Guided and Pre-determined

repetitive to process
practice syllabus http://blog.uta.edu.ec/jona/2016/07/26/computer-assisted-language-learning/
Disadvantages of CALL

Increased
Less-handy Lack of trained
educational
equipment. teachers.
costs.

Inability to
Imperfect
handle
current CALL
unexpected
programs
situations
Limitations in the deployment of CALL materials

There are still some drawbacks that exist in terms of the deployment
of CALL materials. These will have
to be addressed and include:
· slow access,
· server complications,
· end-user configuration unknown,
· potential need for plug-ins,
· technophobic students/teachers.
CALL - an Interdisciplinary Domain
psychology

Human Second
Computer Language
Interaction Acquisition

Instructional
Artificial
Technology
Intelligence
and Design
http://dessypergerina.blogspot.com/2015/03/computer-assisted-language-learning-call.html

Computational
Linguistics
The Three Stages of CALL

The Structural CALL

The Communicative CALL

The Integrative CALL

The Three Stages of CALL
 An Extra Stage, The Intelligent CALL
- Warschauer examines a fourth stage of CALL claiming that a new so called electronic
literacy skill should be developed in the students in the era of Intelligent CALL.
- Intelligent CALL comprises a so called multiple media and implies intelligent
software products which would be able to provide context and data simultaneously. In
this case software would have a user friendly interface, information would be offered
by multiple media that would meet the demand of life long learning and fit individual
learning styles and purposes.
- This type of language learning could rather be called computer mediated language
learning (CMLL) which can be organised in classroom frameworks and should be
accessible through virtual private network (VPN) enabling syncronous and
asynchronous learning environments.
CALL Evaluation
The following checklist is recommended by Rüschoff (1998):
· functional aspects and content appropriateness need to be established,
· linguistic aspects, both in terms of effective presentation of content and in terms of fruitful
learnersoftware
interaction, must be investigated,
· learner and tutor satisfaction are further important issues of any significant evaluation,
· the effectiveness of tutorial strategies and navigational procedures integrated into the courseware
must be considered,
· levels of progress and results achieved by learning with a given item of courseware are to be
examined but difficult to measure,
· guidelines for the most effective learning scenarios in view of different types of courseware need to
be part of evaluation and testing, i.e. whether courseware is best used in a classroom setting, for selfstudy,
or as part of a telecooperative learning scenario.
FINAL ACTIVITY
In your rooms:

1. Read the following file in group.

2. Create a mind map based on
your reading

https://www.humansynergistics.com/blog/constructive-culture-blog/details/constructive-culture/2020/04/02/how-your-teams-can-productively-work-together-virtually
Bibliography References

- Breland,H.M. 1996. Computer-assisted writing assessment: The politics of science versus the

humanities. New-York: Modern Language Association of America.
- https://nurulumama.wordpress.com/2010/11/11/200/