Computer Assisted Language Learning and English Language
Teaching in Thailand: Overview
Attapol Khamkhien
Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science, Kasetsart University
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
CALL can be generally categorized based on three teaching methodologies dominant in ELT
🎃 Behavioristic CALL
🎃 Communicative CALL
🎃 Integrative CALL
🎅 Advantages of CALL in Language Learning
🎄 The use of CALL to support in language learning provides students with the authenticity of the input.
🎄 Students can have an opportunity to interact in one or more of the four core skills, namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing because they have to use or produce text meant for an audience in the target language, not the classroom (Garrett, 1982).
🎄 Teachers can use CALL to provide easy and rapid access to a variety of language learning resources and multimedia components of dynamic and authentic input in all areas of language that teachers could not offer without additional teaching aids.
🎄 Activities that made available from CALL which the teachers can let the students practice with the target language.
🎄 CALL, especially computer mediated communication or CMC, helps encourage foreign language learners to produce comprehensible output.
🎄 The use of CALL in language classroom basically help improve students’ self-concept and mastery of basic language skills, more student-centered learning and engagement in the learning process, more active processing, resulting in higher-order thinking skills and better recall, and gain confidence in directing their own learning.
🎄 CALL is able to provide learners with the kinds of information and support that they require to complete individual tasks and to respond to the diversity of learner needs even within a single classroom structure.
🎄 They can repeat their lesson at anytime and anywhere they want in order to understand the whole lesson more thoroughly.
🎄 CALL can be used to promote autonomous learning.
🎄 CALL allows students to focus on the development of their four macro language skills, they can enjoy their own individuality because they can choose and determine their own level, pace, and time of language practice and development.
🎄 Learners can be able to design their own path in their lifelong learning process by interacting with the learning environment and by making use of learning frameworks.
⛔ Disadvantages of CALL in Language Learning
🍉 The limited exposure to the target language input produced by native speakers might be compensated by the presence of the Thai teachers in an English classroom.
🍉 CALL might not be fully affordable and available to all institutions because of the relatively high cost of appropriate computer technology and efficient network system in class.
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