In today’s session we will look at how the web 2.0 can be used for language teaching. We will explore different approaches to CALL (computer-assisted language learning) and discuss how tasks can be designed.
Your task:
Kern and Warschauer (2000) write about how CALL has mad a shift from a structural to sociocognitive approach to language learning.
Read the article for skimming (only try to find the main ideas). And answer the following questions in a new blog entry:
- What are the main ideas of the structural, cognitive and sociocognitive perspective to language learning?
- What is the role of the computer in each of these approaches?
- Which of these approaches in your opinion can be best used with the web 2.0?
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