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The first form of CALL (in the 1960s–1970s)
Repetitive Language drills
Based on the behaviorist learning model
First designed and implemented in the era of PLATO System (Mainly used for extensive drills, explicit grammar instruction, and translation tests) -
Emerged in the 1970s and 1980s, A reaction to the Behaviorist approach to language learning, Focusing more on using forms rather than on the forms themselves, Grammar should be thought implicitly, the student should creative original sentence, Corresponds to cognitive theories, Personal computers, Software used in the era included text reconstruction programmers and simulations.
Cognitive theories: Creative process of discovery, expression, and development. -
The most recent stage of CALL, Integrating technology more fully into language teaching, Communicative CALL being criticized for using the computer in an ad hoc and disconnected fashion, Teachers moving away from a cognitive view of communicative - language teaching to a socio-cognitive view(real language use in a meaningful, authentic context), Multimedia-networked computers.