Neerachar Sawasdee

Student ID: 6181114011



🌹 Learning Log Week 1 🌹

Computer Application in ELT


📌 The role of teacher in using technology

  • organize
  • instructional designer
  • material resource manager
  • instructional guide
  • facilitator


📌 Technology in Language Teaching

  • Before 80’s: Tape records, language laboratories, video
  • In the 80’s: CALL = CD-ROMs = filling the gapped texts, matching, multiple choice/ immediate feedback
  • In the 90’s and 2000’s: TELL = Internet and web-based tolls/ offered by the internet and communication technology

 

📌 There are 3 phases of CALL (Computer-Assisted Language Learning)

  1. Behavioristic CALL and Audiolingual method.
  2. Communicative CALL and Communicative Language Approach
  3. Integrative CALL: Multimedia and the internet


📌 Internet or NET is a network of people and information, linked together by telephone lines which are connected to computers. It has been mentioned as the most significant development in communication tools of the era.

 

📌 Some terms you need to know:

  • A technophobe = a person who is afraid of new technology.
  • A digital immigrant = a person who grows up using technology and who, thus, feels comfortable and confident with it.
  • Tech-savvy = One who has high proficiency in the use of technology. An individual who displays an ability to effectively employ desktop/laptop computers and consumer-level technological gadgets.
  • A digital native = a person who has come late to the world of technology.

 

📌 The acronyms

  • IT = Information Technology
  • ICT = Information and Communication Technology
  • CAI = Computer-Assisted Instruction
  • CALL = Computer-Assisted Language Learning
  • CMC = Computer-Mediated Communication
  • TELL = Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
  • WBI = Web-Based Instruction
  • MUDs = Multi User Dimension
  • MOOs = MUD object-oriented

 

📌 What is CMC?

📑 CMC = Computer-Mediated Communication

  • computers connected in local or global networks
  • human-to-human communication is the focus.


📌 CMC tools

📑 Asynchronous

  • Email
  • Message Boards
  • Wikis
  • Blogs

📑 Synchronous

  • Text chat
  •  Audio Telephony
  • MUDs, MOOs, WOOs
  • Video/ teleconferencing


📁Pornpimol Sukavatee. Computer Application in ELT. Retrieved January 12, 2021, from https://classroom.google.com/u/0/c/MjIzNjcxMjkxNjA5/m/MjIzODE3MzczNTAz/details