Evaluation Report for Computer Assissted
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EVALUATION REPORT
|Title |A CALL Evaluation Report: English Club |
1. Introduction
Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is defined as a set of programmes that are used in teaching languages, testing or checking learners’ progress and then giving feedback. Actually CALL is vital in teaching process and has many roles that are applied when doing this process. Those roles differ from enabling learners to establish the idea of learner-computer interaction and the idea of self-study. There are a lot of websites that are constructed for CALL programmes and serve a purpose of developing learners’ learning proficiency especially in language learning. These websites are interesting in learning and make learners feel excited in learning by using fun in doing tasks, and this makes technology and CALL different from traditional teaching. Many games, puzzles and quizzes are used in CALL as teaching tool in order to deliver the message of teaching. This report will be looking at an English learning website which is www.englishclub.com. It has some programmes that present grammar of English language in a wonderful way. Moreover, this report will explain how these English grammar tasks are presented and the reasons of why this website is important and recommended for learners.
2. Literature Review
In the second half of the past century, the computer machine was invented. At that time, the computer was a means to save data as well as a means to facilitate teaching and learning (Beatty, 2003). After that, people’s daily life has been entered by computers. Also, computers have been vital tools in doing jobs, communicating and learning. Therefore, in order to develop the learners’ level in learning process, computer’s programmers and developers have designed many applications to achieve that goal. According to Beatty, (2003), Stanford University, Datmouth University and Essex
EVALUATION REPORT
|Title |A CALL Evaluation Report: English Club |
1. Introduction
Computer-assisted language learning (CALL) is defined as a set of programmes that are used in teaching languages, testing or checking learners’ progress and then giving feedback. Actually CALL is vital in teaching process and has many roles that are applied when doing this process. Those roles differ from enabling learners to establish the idea of learner-computer interaction and the idea of self-study. There are a lot of websites that are constructed for CALL programmes and serve a purpose of developing learners’ learning proficiency especially in language learning. These websites are interesting in learning and make learners feel excited in learning by using fun in doing tasks, and this makes technology and CALL different from traditional teaching. Many games, puzzles and quizzes are used in CALL as teaching tool in order to deliver the message of teaching. This report will be looking at an English learning website which is www.englishclub.com. It has some programmes that present grammar of English language in a wonderful way. Moreover, this report will explain how these English grammar tasks are presented and the reasons of why this website is important and recommended for learners.
2. Literature Review
In the second half of the past century, the computer machine was invented. At that time, the computer was a means to save data as well as a means to facilitate teaching and learning (Beatty, 2003). After that, people’s daily life has been entered by computers. Also, computers have been vital tools in doing jobs, communicating and learning. Therefore, in order to develop the learners’ level in learning process, computer’s programmers and developers have designed many applications to achieve that goal. According to Beatty, (2003), Stanford University, Datmouth University and Essex
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