Pedagogical concerns for classroom practice

1. IT is necessary for collaboration at the computer to take place is an environment which mat the social and interactive nature of CALL activities.

2. Individual laptop ownership and wireless networks have made many schools completely flexible learning environment where students.

3. Definition

3.1. Different software programs have been variously promoted as a virtual teacher, a teacher's helper, a guide, an instrument, a teaching tool and a learning tool.

3.2. It is considering as a kind of virtual teacher, or at least taking the place of the teacher for some functions at some times as learners increasingly engage in autonomous learning.

3.3. The metaphor of a computer program as a teacher has been criticized, but since that time assessments of the computer in the classroom have matured and most teachers see the computer as a complementary tool, not as an alternative.

4. Establishing an environment where CALL may take place

4.1. The environment of traditional school is not usually or ideally suited to the delivery of CALL or other types of computer-aided learning in a collaborative context.

5. Software objectives

5.1. All effective CALL environment perhaps needs to offer differences combinations of interfaces to accommodate different learning styles as appropriate to different skills.

5.2. interface better facilitates collaboration at the computer, negotiation of meaning and opportunities for SLA still remain unresolved.

5.3. Suggests the empirical record supports the inductive approach of constructivist design but suggested that provision of suitable metacognitive frameworks is problematic.

5.4. The issue of user control versus program control also remains unresolved.

6. Making better use of existing materials

6.1. This might involve a learner drawing up a set of questions that will guide another user on how to use the program. The creation of such customized user manuals is beneficial to future learners as a manual is more likely to focus on the essentials necessary to use the program, and is beneficial to the manual's author because, as suggest, those who prepare the course material may learn much more than those who receive it.

6.2. For learners to learn, they need to reflect upon their Learning in discussion with teachers and peers

6.3. Learners begin to examine learning materials and their strategies for approaching them, thus benefiting even when a CALL program or online learning resource does not meet their learning needs when a CALL program is not suitable, learners and teachers might need to examine ways in which it can be adapted.