4. What kind activities can be done? - multiple-choice & true/false quizzes - gap-filling exercise/cloze - matching - re- ordering/sequencing - crossword puzzles - games - simulations - writing & word- processing - concordancing - web quests/searching - web publishing - online communication (synchronous and asynchronous)

5. HISTORY of CALL

6. CALL's origins can be traced back to the 1960s. Up until the late 1970s CALL projects were confined mainly to universities, where computer programs were developed on large mainframe computers. The PLATO project, initiated at the University of Illinois in 1960, is an important landmark in the early development of CALL (Marty 1981).

7. In the late 1970s, the arrival of the personal computer (PC) brought computing within the range of a wider audience, resulting in a boom in the development of CALL programs and a flurry of publications. Early CALL favoured an approach that drew heavily on practices associated with programmed instruction. This was reflected in the term Computer Assisted Language Instruction (CALI), which originated in the USA and was in common use until the early 1980s, when CALL became the dominant term. There was initially a lack of imagination and skill on the part of programmers, a situation that was rectified to a considerable extent by the publication of an influential seminal work by Higgins & Johns (1984), which contained numerous examples of alternative approaches to CALL.

8. Throughout the 1980s CALL widened its scope, embracing the communicative approach and a range of new technologies. CALL has now established itself as an important area of research in higher education

9. CALL-specific software: applications designed to develop and facilitate language learning, such as CD-ROMs, web-based interactive language learning exercises/quizzes Generic software: applications designed for general purposes, such as word-processors (Word), presentation software (PowerPoint). TYPE OF CALL

10. Web-based learning programs: online dictionaries, online encyclopedias, online concordancers, news/magazine sites, e-texts, web-quests, web publishing, blog, wiki, etc. Computer-mediated communication (CMC) programs: synchronous - online chat; asynchronous - email, discussion forum, message board

11. CALL is very helpful in the language class in many things. They are : In delivering content by using Power Point, word-processor, etc As a media / tool in discussion activities. Distance learning (i.e. individual learners working by themselves, at a place and time of their choice and, to some extent, at a pace and in an order also chosen by themselves.) -delivering online course content - CMC activities: email, discussion forum, chat rooms - community building http://www.history-of-call.org/.http://www.history-of-call.org/

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