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Defining a Model of CALL

Defining a Model of CALL. What factors influence learning in the language classroom? Is there any model that takes care of all the factors influencing learning in the language classroom?. Traditional model of Dunkin and Biddle : how it can and can not accommodate CALL

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Defining a Model of CALL

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  1. Defining a Model of CALL

  2. What factors influence learning in the language classroom? • Is there any model that takes care of all the factors influencing learning in the language classroom?

  3. Traditional model of Dunkin and Biddle : how it can and can not accommodate CALL • Is it possible to portray CALL in a model?

  4. Changes in the way subjects like language & literature due to the introduction of the computer in the classroom • E.g. literature teaching : use of hypertext, hypermedia and multimedia • ability of multimedia to increase comprehensible input and offer opportunities for comprehensible output thus fostering SLA • Collaboration in understanding opportunities for learning with CALL

  5. Need for a CALL model : • in order to elucidate the relationship between CALL and SLA • Need to identify a current model for teaching & learning and examine what variables might or might not need to be reassessed.

  6. Dunkin and Biddle’s Model in a CALL context • Two ways of considering CALL : • 1. as a supplementary learning material : Classroom context • 2. as an autonomous process: a kind of virtual teacher (no empirical evidence of a learner completely acquiring a second language through CALL alone) • Rather, the role of CALL is to help foster language learning by creating conditions that make some aspects of language learning easier. • Sometimes CALL functions beyond traditional materials and accept that its interactivity mirrors at least some of the functions of the teacher

  7. Presage variables • Whether or not software programs take the place of the teacher? • some CALL programs function as a virtual teacher, a teacher’s helper, a teaching tool and a learning tool • But in many CALL programs, Dunkin and Biddle’s teacher attributes are generally subsumed under the consideration of the program taking the place of the teacher

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