Introduction to Computer-Assisted Language Learning
Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) As technology evolved, so did language learning. Additionally, computer literacy was the turning point in shaping learning languages within innovative multimedia resources on the web. By and by, computers come through as a matter of revitalizing olden language approaches and methods to include them in this new student-centered approach wherewith CALL encompasses an array of interactive and dynamic educational programs and software provided with exercises for grammar, lexica, productive and receptive skills as well as games. CALL Characteristics The former CALL programs comprised Encyclopedias Language courses with text Graphics Animations Audio, and video elements On the other hand, CALL has been extant since the 1960s and 1970s. As Moras (2001) states CALL can be balkanized into three phases such as; Behaviorists 1960s and 1970s The Communicative approach The current integrative CALL approach Warschauer and Whittaker (1997) point o