COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING
Keywords:
Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), virtual environments, perspective, Enhanced, TELL (Technology-Enhanced Language Learning), BALL (Book Assisted Language Learning), SLA theory.Abstract
The research field of language learning and technology, commonly known as Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) covers research of every way of using computers for language learning purposes, from software explicitly designed for language learning to web- based environments such as virtual environments, social software and computer gaming. There is diversity in how the four basic language competences of reading, listening, speaking, and writing are represented in existing CALL research studies (Jung, 2005). This section gives an overview of the area and the research perspectives characterizing CALL, also pointing at the CALL interest in this thesis.
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