This document discusses the impact of the web on computer-assisted language learning (CALL). It describes different types of websites used for CALL, including metasites that link to other sites, sites for sharing resources, and sites for exchanges, training, technical information, and enrichment. The document concludes that technology and implementations are changing rapidly, and that while excellent things are being done through synchronous and asynchronous forums, traditional grammar-based pedagogical approaches still dominate online language teaching.

1. CALL Computer-Assisted Language Learning

2. The Impact of the Web on CALL 3

3. The MetaSites are sites in local communities that receive the programming

4. A metasite may be most simply defined as a site which consists of (links to) other sites

5. Collection of Resources http://www.rbms.info/links/spec_colls_web_resources.shtml

6. Enormous Duplication is Being Generated

7. Virtual Connections

8. Active Worlds Educational Solutions http:// www.activeworlds.com/edu /

10. These sites exist for various professional purposes

11. Exchanges of ideas and discussions http://www.well.ac.uk/wellproj/index.html

12. Training http://www.ict4lt.org/en/index.htm

13. The provision of technical information http://www.fln.vcu.edu/cgi/interact.html

14. Enrichment http://www.mltav.asn.au/content/view/5/6/

15. Co-operative ventures The Web lends itself perfectly to co-operative and collaborative activities between students at the same or different institutions

16. Often with the final goal of publishing the work online Often with the final goal of publishing the work online

17. CONCLUSIONS Technology, ideas and implementations are changing too rapidly for it yet to be possible to provide a definitive picture of CALL on the Web.

18. CONCLUSIONS Excellent things are being done, especially through synchronous and asynchronous forums like discussion groups, bulletin boards, Chats and MOOs

19. CONCLUSIONS Pedagogical approaches adopted online vary greatly from traditional grammar-based teaching to innovative goal-oriented quests with the former still dominating

20. References Felix, U. (1998). Virtual Language Learning: Finding the Gems Amongst the Pebbles , Melbourne: Language Australia.