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During WWII in army crash courses, created by and for the army. -
Videos, recorders, projectors, amongst other used in TEFL. Little space to participation.
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Audio-visual education course at Indiana University. -
The computer acted as a tutor, its main role was to give instructions and corrections. It understood language as an autonomous system.
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Changes on language learning with the use of computers as aid for students.
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It understood language as a mentally constructed system. The computer starts actings as an incentive for students and a tool that helps them understand the language.
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The computer's role is now to facilitate context to encourage social interaction. We speak here of a fundamentalist approach with education based on doing tasks. The use of Internet and multimedia resources characterized this approach.
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An early facet of the Internet: Accessible to small numbers, with no opportunity for interaction and contents created by only a few candidates. -
CDs and audiobooks alongside textbook. Search of information in the Web. Still lacking of participation and collaboration amongst students.
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Major overhaul to the Web 1.0. New ways of communication in blogs, chats, social networks. User of the Web 2.0 can interact with one another. New opportunities for TEFL.
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Set on the foundations of the global information society and the new technologies, the knowledge society's goal is the use of knowledge as a tool for human evolution and development.