1.
Based on your language learning experience with CALL software/website, please discuss pros and cons of multimedia CALL with your group members. Think
about what you like and what you do not like when using CALL software/website
to learn English or other languages. Then come up with a list and examples
Pros
:
·
Its practical way to
implement the language because this application facilitate us development of English
Language skill.
·
This application is
very helpful, because it supplies comprehensible input. Then, the students
often don’t need to be guided by a teacher. They even can solve their difficulties
in applying this application website.
Cons:
·
By applying this software/ website , students skill
are not exactly measured because this application tends to dictate the user to
do thing to thing. Such as : ( in the
previous task ) the students are commanded to read the material so that they
can easily answer the question which have been provided below.
·
This application
wouldn’t enrich the knowledge of the user, the user only need to do with appropriate
feedback and solve the assessment which have been provided.
·
The students are not guided
to operate this application. They tend to rely too much on the computer's
ability to process the learner's input.
·
This application promotes
student autonomy and often make students become self-centered individual. Moreover,
they don’t get feedback from the teacher, they might not know whether their
answer is true or not ( they are not suggested to get the best explanation answer)
2. Many multimedia CALL software packages claim their high
level of interactivity.
What does "interactivity" mean to you? Do you think they are truly
interactive? Please give some examples to explain your opinion.
·
in my opinion interactivity describe about computer ability to comunicate with users. I
think they are not trully interactive, because they are just program. They have
artifisial intellegence and their knowladge are limited.
·
The example is, we cannot ask something that out of
program, if we use drawing program we cannot ask something about word.
3 . In
the first article you read about "Some Pros and Cons" (ICT4LT Module2.2), the
author, Davies, writes, "There is a danger, however, of relying too
much on the computer's ability to process the learner's input" and
then he cites Levy's (1998) words to support this point:
"Where the student is generally working alone without the teacher,
the computer has to reliably give the student the right kind of guidance and advice every time the program is used; there
is no second wave of feedback that can come with a teacher's presence to act as
backup. [...] The success, therefore, of the computer in the tutorial role, hinges on how reliably the program manages
the student's learning and on how timely, accurate and
appropriate is the feedback, help and advice given." (Levy 1998:90)
Do you agree with this point? Discuss this issue with your group
members. Can you further elaborate this "danger" with
examples?
We agree with the statement above. We argue
that learning by computer-based learning and using the internet has good
impact. The students begin to learn independently. However, they may be trapped
in this learning without the guidance from a teacher. Because, they just easily
derive the information without knowing whether it is true or not.
4. In the first article you read about
"Some Pros and Cons" (ICT4LT Module2.2), the
author, Davies, writes, "There is a danger, however, of relying too
much on the computer's ability to process the learner's input" and
then he cites Levy's (1998) words to support this point:
"Where the student is generally working alone without the teacher,
the computer has to reliably give the student the right kind of guidance and advice every time the program is used; there
is no second wave of feedback that can come with a teacher's presence to act as
backup. [...] The success, therefore, of the computer in the tutorial role, hinges on how reliably the program manages
the student's learning and on how timely, accurate and
appropriate is the feedback, help and advice given." (Levy 1998:90)
Do you agree with this point? Discuss this issue with your group
members. Can you further elaborate this "danger" with
examples?
Yes , I agree. The students/ the users are
independently drilled to do the task without the dictation from the teacher.
For example is applied in the unit 3 : the student are commanded to search the
meaning of the technical terms and acronyms
related to the use of the Internet, while the students don’t
worry to answers it, because the explanation/ meaning are already attached in
the internet glossaries.
5.
At the end of this section, Davies
makes a final comment on multimedia CALL:
"Technology is racing ahead of pedagogy and, unfortunately, often driving the pedagogy.
Above all, there is a need for further research into how language students learn. We still know
relatively little about the learning process, but what little we know is often
disregarded by multimedia developers."
Based on your own learning experience with CALL software, did you find
some that involve a high level of technology but provide little help to
language learning? Or did you find some that involve simple technology but are
really helpful to language learning?
As long as I learn by use this CALL software,
I found some references website which is simple to use and helpful to enhance our
understanding through language learning and computer-based learning. Such as,
glossary of internet terms by Walt Howe <http://www.walthowe.com/glossary/> and computer
dictionary-technology, network & internet terms <http://www.computerdictionary.info/> from unit 3.
