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 Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is the general term for the range of processes and activities that employ computers in the teaching and learning of a new language. In the history of CALL we can see the confluence of the latest technology as well as the most widely accepted language theories of the day. The history of CALL is often divided into three phases: Structural CALL Communicative CALL Integrative CALL Starting in the ’50s and developing through the ’70s, we have what’s called Structural/Behaviorist CALL by Warschauer. This marked the era of Stimulus and Response. The computer prompts the student with a question (stimulus) and the student gives an answer (response) by filling in the blanks or choosing from a given set of choices. The methods du jour were the Grammar-Translation and Audiolingual methods. Language was seen as made up of discrete units, and these units were considered to be closely interconnected and interacting according to a predictable and explain...

 Hello readers I'm writing this blog on the grounds of a task assigned to me by my teacher to know more about the task  CLICK HERE . What is Web 2.0? Web 2.0 tools are free digital programs that can be used for creating and sharing student-generated projects and products. They are interactive, multi-purpose, easy-to-use digital platforms that encourage students to collaborate with each other or create and share individualized response products. Web 2.0 tools provide engaging ways students can interact with, and most importantly, learn from course material. They are particularly helpful when aligned to teaching and assessment exercises meant to increase student engagement, require students to summarize information, or verbalize insight into their conceptual understanding through means other than traditional writing exercises. Web 2.0 tools also provide students an opportunity to interact with others as they share their knowledge. Students can collaborate with classmates to crea...

 Hello readers, welcome to my blog, I'm composing this blog on the grounds of a task assigned to me by my teacher, to know more about the task  CLICK HERE . What is CALL? Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is the general term for the range of processes and activities that employ computers in the teaching and learning of a new language. In the history of CALL we can see the confluence of the latest technology as well as the most widely accepted language theories of the day. The history of CALL is often divided into three phases: Structural CALL Communicative CALL Integrative CALL Starting in the ’50s and developing through the ’70s, we have what’s called Structural/Behaviorist CALL by Warschauer. This marked the era of Stimulus and Response. The computer prompts the student with a question (stimulus) and the student gives an answer (response) by filling in the blanks or choosing from a given set of choices. The methods du jour were the Grammar-Translation and Audiolingu...

 Hello my Dearest readers, I'm writing this blog on the grounds of a task assigned to me by my teacher to know more about the task  CLICK HERE . David Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Bangor, and works from his home in Holyhead, North Wales as a writer, editor, lecturer, and broadcaster in language and linguistics, with particular reference to the English language. Born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, in 1941, he spent his early childhood in Holyhead, attended secondary school in Liverpool, and read English at University College London. After a research year at UCL's Survey of English Usage, he lectured at Bangor and then joined the new department of linguistics at Reading in 1965, where a decade later he became professor of linguistic science. He left the full-time university world in 1984 to work as an independent scholar. His writing takes in most areas of language study, his best-known authored books including The Cambridge Encyclopedia of La...

 Welcome to my blog, I'm writing this blog on the grounds of a task assigned to me by my teacher, to know more about the task.  CLICK HERE .  Video 1. Sir Ken Robinson, Changing Paradigm    We stigmatize mistakes. And we’re now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make — and the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.         Sir Ken Robinson.           According to Ken Robinson, The problem is that the current system of education was designed and conceived and structured for a different age. It was conceived in the intellectual culture of the Enlightenment, and in the economic circumstances of the Industrial Revolution. Our children are living in the most intensely stimulating period in the history of the earth. They are being besieged with information and parse their attention from every platform, computers, from iPhones, from adverti...

               I am writing this blog on the grounds of a task assigned to me .To know more about the task  CLICK HERE . Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important. Bill Gates                       With the rise in Corona Cases the world has witnessed a sudden rise in online education also as Schools and Universities are shut due to the deadly virus. Technology came as a life savior, some are very happy with online education while some are not so happy with it. Online education has it's own prose and Cons but we don't have any effective substitute than Online education. But... But.. My friends now another prominent question emerged, which is "CAN TECHNOLOGY REPLACE TEACHERS?" The answer of this question is "NO". A teacher can not be replaced by Technology, because we are humans and humans needs human...