COMPUTER ASSISTED

LANGUAGE LEARNING

UNIDAD 1
Foundations and Components of CALL

TEMA 1:
Introduction to Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Mgs. Jorge Zambrano Pachay

 TO START

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

IN YOUR GROUPS:
1. Watch the video.
2. Take notes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEoGULFM_tM
3. Share your notes
4. Write a sentence about your notes in group
Objective

Recognize the principal foundations and components

of CALL as a language learning theory.
 A broad discipline
CALL covers a broad range of activities which
makes it difficult to describe it as a single idea or
simple research agenda. CALL has come to
encompass issues of materials design,
technologies, pedagogical theories and modes
of instruction. Materials for CALL may include
those which are purpose-made for language
learning and those which adapt existing
computer-based materials, video and other
materials.
http://dessypergerina.blogspot.com/2015/03/computer-assisted-language-learning-call.html
 Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Computer – Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is

an approach to language teaching and learning in
which computer technology is used as an aid to the
presentation, reinforcement and assessment of
material to be learned, usually including a substantial
interactive element.

Is it significant to integrate CALL in EFL curriculum? http://blog.uta.edu.ec/jona/2016/07/26/computer-assisted-language-learning/

CALL
• CALL is not a method.
• The focus of CALL is learning, and not teaching.
• CALL materials are used in teaching to facilitate the
language learning process.
• It is a student-centered learning material, which
promotes self-paced learning
• It is a form of computer-based learning which carries
two important features: bidirectional learning and
individualized learning.
CALL
• Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) originates from CAI (Computer-
Assisted Instruction), where computers were first viewed as an aid for teachers.

• The philosophy CALL is more student-centered with the lessons allowing the
learners to learn on their own using structured and/or unstructured interactive
lessons.
 Characteristics

The level
The The
The of the How it is
language language What is to
language language to be
of writing be taught
taught to be taught.
instruction system
taught
CALL Related Acronyms

CALL Computer Assisted Language Learning

CAI Computer Assisted Instruction
ICALL Intelligent Computer Assisted Language Learning
CELL Computer Enhanced Language Learning
TELL Technology Enhanced Language Learning
WELL Web Enhanced Language Learning
 Approaches to CALL
Warschauer (1996) divides CALL history into three phases:

Behavioristic Communicative

Integrative.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/512425263834033803/
A summary of behaviourist and constructivist approaches to
learning materials
Technology driving CALL
In the last four decades, CALL materials have gone from an emphasis on
basic textual gap-filling tasks and simple programming exercises to
interactive multimedia presentations with sound, animation and full-
motion video.

Materials designers are often either teachers with limited technical skills
or competent technicians with no experience in teaching. For both
parties, software authoring programs often include simple ways to
create gap-filling exercises that are seductively easy to use.
 A brief history of CALL

CALL’s origins and development trace back to the 1960 ’s Delcloque 2000
Since the early days CALL has developed into a symbiotic relationship
between the development of technology and pedagogy
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF
CALL

http://meryemkara.blogspot.com/2018/03/blog-post.html
FINAL ACTIVITY

In your rooms:
- Write a summary about the
topic learnt today.
- Include 5 main aspects in your
writing.

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/