COMPUTER ASSISTED

LANGUAGE LEARNING

UNIDAD 1
Foundations and Components of CALL

TEMA 3:
Defining a model of CALL

Mgs. Jorge Zambrano Pachay

 INITIAL ACTIVITY

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

1. Define, what is CALL?

2. Advantages and disadvantages
3. Share your ideas
Objective

Determine the factors that influence this learning

theory in the culture and learning.
The Design of a CALL Program

These include theories of

instruction, theories of
learning, curriculum
imperatives, experiments with
a new technology, exercise
types, learning problems,
language skills and the delivery
of materials to a large number
of students (Levy, 1997).
Elements in the CALL design process

Hardware

Authoring
Software
Packages

The
Internet
and Email
Teacher and pupil classroom behaviour: activities used in
CALL

The range of tasks and exercises

available in CALL can be organized
into various taxonomies based on
the stated focus of the software (e.g.
grammar, vocabulary, fluency),
targeted language skills (e.g. reading,
writing, speaking and/or listening) or
Bloom’s (1956) levels of questions
and learner characteristics based on
age, gender and level(e.g. beginner, http://edayalinayakli.blogspot.com/2015/03/computer-assisted-language-learning-call.html

intermediate, advanced).
Activities used in CALL

Observable
Locus of
changes in
control
pupil behaviour
Locus of control

Locus of control refers to the continuum between the program’s

and the learner’s responsibility for decisions about the
sequence and outcomes of learning, learner interactions and,
even, the content of what is taught.
Observable changes in pupil behaviour

CALL essentially presents different kinds of language-learning opportunities from

those available in a traditional classroom. A good example is found in Ward et
al. (2007) on providing opportunities for learners to model back-channel
feedback (expressions such as ‘uh-huh’ that demonstrate comprehension when
listening) in an Arabic program.
 CALL and Culture

Issues for the

Language and
language
Culture
learning process

CALL, Culture
CALL and
and Endangered
Culture
Languages
https://journals.librarypublishing.arizona.edu/itlt/article/id/1742/
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
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