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👄👄Computer Assisted Language Learning and English Language👄👄 Teaching in Thailand: Overview

👉👉Attapol Khamkhien👈👈

Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science, Kasetsart University

💣💣Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)💣💣

 

CALL can be generally categorized based on three teaching methodologies dominant in ELT:

1. Behavioristic CALL: just focus on practice.

2. Communicative CALL provides student learn and practice by using game activities.

3. Integrative CALL: students can learn and use language skills continuously.

💥💥Advantages of CALL in Language Learning💥💥

- Support in language learning provides students with the authenticity of the input.

- CALL helps encourage foreign language learners to produce comprehensible output.

- The students can repeat their lesson at anytime and anywhere they want in order to understand the whole lesson more thoroughly.

- CALL can provide the facility to design the learning activities in tasks and to accomplish the learning objectives in the first instance.

- Learner-centered classes can be promoted by CALL.

 💨💨Disadvantages of CALL in Language Learning💨💨

- Given that the limited exposure to the target language input produced  by native speakers might be compensated by the presence of the Thai teachers in an English classroom.

- They might not feel at ease to adjust their teaching and learning styles and relatively rigid curriculum for CALL authentic activities. 

- high cost.

💃💃Educational CALL Program and ELT in Thailand💃💃

     With the arrival of the internet, the computer has been transformed from a tool for information procession and display to a tool  for information processing and communication.