Computer Assisted Language Learning

CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) appears at beginning of the 1980s.  By 1982 it was in widespread use in the UK (July 1982), the newsletter CALLBOARD and in Davies & Higgins (1982). In the USA the acronym CALI (Computer Assisted Language Instruction) was initially preferred, appearing in the name of CALICO (founded in 1982), the oldest professional association devoted to the promotion of the use of computers in language learning and teaching.

An alternative term to CALL emerged in the 1980s, namely Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL), which was felt to provide a more accurate description of the activities which fall broadly within the range of CALL. Brown (1988:6) writes: Learning a foreign language can enrich the education of every pupil socially and intellectually and be vocationally relevant. The new technology should form an integral part of a modern language department's overall teaching strategy. By these means, to coin a communicative-sounding acronym, TELL (Technology Enhanced Language Learning) can help produce telling results in language performance both in school and in the wider world. It therefore has a place in every modern language department.

CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) is an approach to language teaching and learning in which the computer is used as an aid to the presentation, reinforcement and assessment of material to be learned, usually including a substantial interactive element. CALL is accommodates its changing nature is any process in which a learners uses a computer, as a result, improved his or her language.

CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) is the teaching program using basic computer as a tool or facility. CALL has a program to completely the progress. The programs are;

·         CALL-specific software. It is application designed to develop and facilitate language learning.

·         Generic software. It is application designed to general purpose.

·         Web-based learning program. It is program designed to improve skill in using modern internet technology.

·         Computer-mediated communication (CMC) program. Its seem like a web-based learning program, but CMC only using program which synchronous and asynchronous in learning progress.

CALL has a role or uses in language learning to improve the CALL self in education. The roles are computer as tutor for language drill and skill practice, computer as tool for writing, presentation and research, computer as medium of global communication, computer as simulation/problem solving, computer s game, and computer as application of internet ELT.

CALL has important potential for English language teaching. If used properly with clear educational objective. CALL can interest and motivate learners of English. CALL can increase information access to the teacher, provide flexibility to instruction and thereby serve the individual’s learning pace, cognitive style and learning strategies. CALL allows learners to control their own learning process and progress. Using effective and suitable software application, CALL can provide communicative meaningful language learning environments. Good quality and well-designed CALL software can offer a balance of controlled practice and free communicative expression to the learners, include immediate feedback. In the future, with the advance of computer technologies, it is expected that CALL will be able to absorb some teaching functions. However, despite greater user-friendliness and effectiveness, CALL will never replace the teacher. CALL is not a magic solution to language teaching. The effectiveness of CALL relies on how CALL is utilized to meet language learning goals for individualized learners in specific education setting.

ICT Tools, Roles, and Application

ICT tools can be divide into 3 categories: input source, output source, and other source. In ICT input source is the media or electronic device, such as PC, laptop, digital camera. Whereas output source is the media or tools which used by teacher to give information or explain something in video, picture or animation to make students interesting. Other source is supported tools or device to improve the technique of teaching using modern technology.

ICT is very awesome to improve students knowledge and interested them. Because ICT is modern development technology in teaching the material simply and paperless. Even though, teaching using ICT for education has advantage and disadvantage, ICT for education is important to create global teacher or student.

Actually, ICT for education began in along time ago. In that era ICT for education using magazine, TV, and radio. Then technology has been developed widely in internet technology.

The role of ICT is multi faceted and it has to be exploited to the maximum potential. ICT will be success if there are role and application to support the ICT for education to improve the teaching method. An application of ICT is mean application which is support the ICT teaching method or presentation in teaching process, such as application which connected in internet, etc.

Definition Hypertext, Hypermedia and Multimedia

ICT is the technology which using computer and connected to the internet. It also can be use on education or job in this era. The technology was used a long time since computer or digital technology was created.

In this subject we learn about hypertext, hypermedia, multimedia and MIS (Management Information System).

Hypertext

Hypertext is text that links to other information. By clicking on a link in a hypertext document, a user can quickly jump to different content. Though hypertext is usually associated with Web pages.

Hypermedia

Hypermedia, an extension of the term hypertext, its a information which includes graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlink. This contrasts with the broader term multimedia, which may include non-interactive linear presentations as well as hypermedia

 Most Web navigation is done by clicking text-based link that open new pages in a web browser. These links, which are often blue and underlined, are referred to as hypertext, since they allow the user to jump from page to page. Hypermedia is an extension of hypertext that allows images, movies, and flash animations to be linked to other content.

Multimedia

Multimedia is the field concerned with the computer-controlled integration of text, graphics, drawings, still and moving images (Video), animation, audio, and any other media where every type of information can be represented, stored, transmitted and processed digitally.

(http://www.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave/ISE_Multimedia/node10.html)

MIS (Management Information System)

A management information system (MIS) is a broadly used and applied term for a three-resource system required for effective organization management. The resources are people, information and technology, from inside and outside an organization, with top priority given to people. The system is a collection of information management methods involving computer automation (software and hardware) or otherwise supporting and improving the quality and efficiency of business operations and human decision making.

(http://www.techopedia.com/definition/8240/management-information-system-mis)

When we learn the subject, ICT. We can concluded that ICT is the important information or lesson to improve our skill in presentation using connected internet. Learned the ICT was good way to make the other people make interesting in our presentation, but if we use it in right way. Beside that, we also search anything we need or want. We can searching the answer of some question in our test.

We can take advantage of ICT to development our education and knowledges.