About+CALL+course


 * Computer-assisted language learning (CALL)** is defined as "the search for and study of applications of the computer in language teaching and learning".CALL contains a wide range of ICT (International Currency Technologies) applications and approaches to teaching and learning foreign languages, from the "traditional" drill-and-practice programs that characterised CALL in the 1960s and 1970s to more recent manifestations of CALL.

CALL is wonderful tool that helps teachers to facilitate the language learning process because it can be used to reinforce what has been already been learned in the classroom or as a remedial tool to help learners who require additional support. Language teachers have been avid users of technology for a very long time. Gramophone records were among the first technological aids to be used by language teachers in order to present students with recordings of native speakers’ voices, and broadcasts from foreign radio stations were used to make recordings on reel-to-reel tape recorders. Other examples of technological aids that have been used in the foreign language classroom include slide projectors, film-strip projectors, film projectors, videocassette recorders and DVD players.

The reason why I chose to take this course is that I want to learn more about these multimedias and use them in my teaching, Though, it's a bit complicated at the beginning, yet I know there's nothing that I couldn't overcome.