2. “This technology will revolutionize the teaching of
foreign languages; it will bring pedagogy up to
date with technology”
Underwood (1984:33)
3. Itwas proliferated thanks to the popularity in
the 60´s of the behaviorist theories of
american psychologist B. E. Skinner.
Behavoirist ideas were taken as the theorical
soil on which to build the computer assisted
learning /teaching framework.
4. This CALL teaching paradigm is known as an
“instructional model”; however the initial
popularity of CALL soon came to an end due to
two main reasons:
4. The lack of imagination and creativity in
designing new and challenging exercise.
5. The high cost and maintenance of the
computers.
5. • Includes the learner also knowing how to
use the language appropriately in a social
situation.
• Students can understand the essential
points of what a native speaker says to
hear-him in a real communicative situation,
the native speaker interprets the response
with little or no effort at all.
6. • Meaningful practice rather than
mechanical practice.
• Receptive skills (listening and reading)
before productive skills (speaking and
writing).
• Use of target language, little use of native
language
• Implicit rather than explicit grammar.
• Modeling instead of correction.
• Low anxiety atmosphere.
7. • Activities will focus on acquisition practice
rather than learning practice.
• Activities should require students to take a
creative action in the target language rather
than manipulating prefabricated language.
• Activity feedback will not aim at correcting or
evaluating each response.
8. • Activities and instructions should be written in
the target language.
• CALL activities should be flexible, not based
on the principle that every stimulus has one
and only response.
• CALL activities should allow students to
explore an environment in which discoveries
can be made, there is no predetermined
material of any sort.
9. The lack of interest on the part of publishers
in many areas.
Technological leaps leaving pedagogy in
their wake.
Poor access to good training in instructional
design techniques
