The document summarizes key developments in computer-assisted language learning (CALL) during the 1980s. 1. The 1980s saw the rise of personal computers and the microcomputer, making computing widely available for the first time and fueling major progress in CALL. 2. Seymour Papert developed the Logo programming language in 1980, which had a big impact on education by allowing students to develop their own educational activities. 3. The Commodore 64, one of the earliest home computers, was released in 1982 and used a TV as a monitor, further popularizing personal computing.

1. Computer Media-aided Communication and Language Learning The 80’s Lorena Padilla

2. The 80’s: The Age of Enlightenment The beginning of the 80s sealed the predominance of the microcomputer and made computing available to the masses for the first time. CAL(L) developments reached critical mass. The World Wide Web was invented. It was also in the 80s that major progress occurred in related areas of machine intelligence, including CALL.

3. 1980 might well be regarded as the year of Seymour Papert, Logo and Mindstorm

4. 1981 IBM introduces the first PC or Personal Computer.

5. The 80s: Mindstorms, Commodores and laptops “ Getting a computer to do something” Seymour Papert , author of “Mindstorm: Children Computer and Powerful Ideas”, invented the computer language to design mathematical figures.

6. A BBC Micro game

7. Years later, Jose Armando Valente writes: Logo as a Window into the Mind. Logo made a big impact because it provided powerful computational facilities for children and a completely different way of talking about education. Logo was the only educational software that allowed students to develop educational computer activities.

8. M.I.T. Computing Process Joseph Weizenbaum has insisted that “giving children computers to play with…cannot touch…any real problem”.

9. Epson brings out its first laptop. Control Data Corporation, the new owners of PLATO release PLATO materials for several micros. The Commodore 64 comes out. It uses a TV-set as monitor.

10. The Commodore 64

11. In 1983: Digital Equipment Corporation publishes a history of computer-based education. Also, in 1983, Tim O’shea and John Self publish their important book: “Learning and Teaching with Computers”.

12. The 80s: Digital Beginning and the British of the “British School” Bern Russchoff was the first to have established the use of PCs rather than large mainframes in CALL in Germany.

13. Beginning of the development of HYPERTIES (Hypertex The Interactive Encyclopedia System) by Ben Schneiderman who was to be a Keynote Speaker at the first WorldCALL conference.

14. At the US Air Force Academic in 1987, the interactive videodisc language-learning center boasted 48 workstations delivering 100s of hours of instructions which constituted up to 50% of classroom instruction in several languages.

15. Philippe Khan , who will create BORLAND , develops the language PASCAL to TURBO-PASCAL. Some of the first CALL publications appear in France.

16. The Apple II and the IBM XT are released.

17. Microsoft Word appears, the word processor in general makes a strong appearance in CALL.

18. First issue of the CALICO Journal.

19. References http://www.eurocall-languages.org/resources/history_of_call.pdf