Computer Application in ELT
Teachers must have basic knowledge of computer and be able to use at least the Windows operating system, the Microsoft Office and should also be able to apply Internet in the teaching.
📢 The role of teachers in using technology
- organizer
- instructional
- designer
- material resource
- manager
- instructional
- guide
- facilitator
📢 Technology in Language Teaching
📌 Before 80’s 👉 Tape records, language laboratories, video
📌 In the 80’s 👉 CALL= CD-ROMs= filling the gapped texts, matching,
multiple choice/ immediate feedback
📌 In the 90’s and 2000’s 👉 TELL = Internet and web-based tools/ offered by
the Internet and communication technology
📢There are 3 phases of CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning)
- Behavioristic CALL and Audiolingual method.
- Communicative CALL and Communicative Language Approach
- Integrative CALL: Multimedia and the internet
📢What is an Internet?
- Internet or NET is a network of people and information, linked together by telephone lines which are connected to computers.
📢The acronyms
IT = Information Technology
ICT = Information and Communication Technology
CAI = Computer-Assisted Instruction
CALL = Computer-Assisted Language Learning
CMC = Computer-Mediated Communication
TELL = Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
WBI = Web-Based Instruction
MUDs = Multi User Dimension
MOOs = MUD object-oriented
📢CMC tools
💡Asynchronous
- Message Boards
- Wikis
- Blogs
💡Synchronous
- Text chat
- Audio Telephony
- MUDs, MOOs, WOOs
- Video/ teleconferencing
