The Evolution of Computer Aided Language Learning (CALL) Pt.2

Call from the XXI century "Integrator"

It is situated at the end of the 1980s. It is in this phase that we would find ourselves at the moment, and it is related to the application of a socio-cognitive point of view that places greater emphasis on the use of language in authentic social contexts ( Warschauer and Healey, 1998).

Thecnology: Media and internet

In the 21st century social media has been the game changing phenomenon within communication. This has been enabled by the number of internet users having grown from its initial moderate low millions to more recently low billions (Shirky 2011:1).

Paradigm of English teaching: Content-based teaching

In recent years content-based instruction has become increasingly popular as a means of developing linguistic ability.
Content-based teaching is the focus of a CBI lesson is on the topic or subject matter. During the lesson students are focused on learning about something. This could be anything that interests them from a serious science subject to their favourite pop star or even a topical news story or film. They learn about this subject using the language they are trying to learn, rather than their native language, as a tool for developing knowledge and so they develop their linguistic ability in the target language. This is thought to be a more natural way of developing language ability and one that corresponds more to the way we originally learn our first language and even a second language.

Conception of the language: Socio-cognitive

It is called socio-cognitive since the activities of "task-based", "project-based" and "content-based approaches" are the most common type of activities, since it seeks to expose students to authentic environments and also integrate the different learning skills (Warschauer and Healey, 1998).

Main use of the computer: Authentic speech

Nowadays, the use of the computer is vital for us, and the main use we give to this decive is to use social media, to make some homework or to surf on the web just for fun.

The main objective of the Call in the XXI century is the communication using the internet.

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