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This blog was set up as a personal project to record my study notes online. The large majority of the writings are those of the authors mentioned in the posts.
Showing posts with label CALL. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 8, 2016

CALL— past, present and future. Stephen Bax (2003)

Read the article/ book chapter, looking for 5 issues that you find interesting, or surprising.



  • "Normalisation is therefore the stage when a technology is invisible, hardly even recognised as a technology, taken for granted in everyday life.  CALL has not reached this stage, as evidenced by the use of the very acronym 'CALL' - we do not speak of PALL (Pen Assisted Language Learning) or of BALL (Book Assisted Language Learning) because those two technologies are completely integrated into education, but CALL has not yet reached that normalisation stage.  In other words, one criterion of CALL's successful integration into language learning will be that it ceases to exist as a separate concept and field for discussion.  CALL practitioners should be aiming at their own extinction." p.23