In the article Stephan Bax discussed the development of CALL, the history of it, how it's now and how it will be in the future.
He also discussed the phases of CALL which were divided by Mark Warschauer into three phases: Behavioristic, communicative and integrative. Bax used these phases as a basic point to answer a three main questions which are where has CALL been? where is it now and were is it going?.
Bax explained the goal of CALL through the concept of normalization which is the stage when a technology is invisible, hardly even recognized as a technology, taken for granted in everyday life. So, he suggested changes in order to make CALL reach a normalization stage in teaching.
Bax said that CALL will reach that stage of normalization when computers are used every day in our classrooms of learning language by students and teachers.
However, I believe that Saudi Arabia has the abilities to achieve normalization but all what is needed is time, knowledge and changes in the educational system and we will succeed if we want to make it happened.
ReplyDeletehii shima
I liked your opinion.Your ideas are so clear
i agree with you we really need time ,and efforts to achieve normalization .
We can achieve normalisation if we work hard to do it.
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