Computer Assisted Language Learning and information and communications technology Susana Beatriz Martinez Velazquez

1. UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DEL CARMEN
Name:
Susana Beatriz Martinez Velazquez.
Grade:
3rd semester.
Degree:
English language
Subject:
Computer Assisted Language Learning
and
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT)

2. Best kown as: call
computers have become so widespread in schools and
homes and their uses have expanded so dramatically
that the majority of language teachers must now begin to
think about the implications of computers for a language
learning.
Computer Assisted
Language Learning

3. CALL has three phases:
1.-Behavioristic CALL: IT was based on the then-dominant behaviorist
theories of learning. Programs of this phase entailed repetitive language
drills and can be referred to as "drill and practice.
• Repeated exposure to the same material is beneficial or even
essential to learning
• A computer is ideal for carrying out repeated drills, since the machine
does not get bored with presenting the same material and since it can
provide immediate non-judgmental feedback.
• A computer can present such material on an individualized basis,
allowing students to proceed at their own pace and freeing up class
time for other activities.

4. 2.-Communicative CALL: Proponents of this approach felt that the drill
and practice programs of the previous decade did not allow enough
authentic communication to be of much value.
• focuses more on using forms rather than on the forms themselves;
• teaches grammar implicitly rather than explicitly;
• allows and encourages students to generate original utterances rather
than just manipulate prefabricated language;
• does not judge and evaluate everything the students nor reward them
with congratulatory messages, lights, or bells;
• avoids telling students they are wrong and is flexible to a variety of
student responses;
• uses the target language exclusively and creates an environment in
which using the target language feels natural, both on and off the
screen; and
• will never try to do anything that a book can do just as well.

5. 3.-Steps toward integrative CALL:
Multimedia: allows a variety of media (text, graphics, sound,
animation, and video) to be accessed on a single machine.
The Internet: can facilitate an integrative approach to using
technology.
NOTE:
 CALL suggests that the computer can serve a variety of uses for
language teaching. It can be a tutor which offers language drills or
skill practice.

6. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
TECHNOLOGY (ICT)
Many developing countries have accepted ICT as a
national mission.
ICT can work to meet the eight goals identified with
the18 targets set by the MDGs

8. ICT can help achieve the MDGs by: increasing efficiency,
transparency, and competitiveness; oppening up new
opportunities and business models; and empowering citizens.
Value towards the MDGs is in gathering, storing, and analyzing
information with greater accuracy and granularity.
ICT IN DEVELOPING COUNTIRES:
The history of the internet is part of the reason for the skew in
connectivity between developed and developing countries.
A consequence of this is the dominating use of English language
in the internet.

9. Internet governance closely linked to what we want the internet to
do. Some changes may be required to make it more inclusive,
reliable, and responsive to users’ needs.
Largely does not include issues relating accountability, and various
stakeholders are struggling to define roles and resoonsabilities.
ICT can generate, it is business, case can also be sound. “ICT is not
the solution to any of them”, “ICT is a piece of the solution to all of
them.

10. REFERENCE
http://www.ict4lt.org/en/warschauer.
htm
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rtongia/ICT
4SD_Ch_2--ICT.pdf