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Control vs. guidance
Davies also points out that many designers of CALL-based programs were "more interested in control rather than guidance". Do you agree? Can you give some examples to support or refute this points?
Note: Groups 5 and 6 are required to answer this question. Other students' responses are also welcome.
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10/18/2004, 12:46 pm
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claireou
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 From Group 6
Our group doesn’t quite agree with Davies’ point of view. Take BBC English Learning website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/) as an example, you can find a lot of guidance here. When you get into the website, the first things you’ll see is a lot of columns in which you can find news articles and business news. It doesn’t control you to read the news but guides you to choose the news you like to read. After reading, you are free to take quizzes to see whether you understand or not. All the quizzes are related to the news you read which can help you a lot in understanding the news. Or you could just check out the vocabulary and grammars involved in the news to help you understand it more clearly. If you still couldn’t get the point, you are also free to pose your questions on the message board, and someone more professional will help you with your questions. Everything you do is for interest and fun, and all these are things that help you and guide you rather than control you. So base on BBC, we have to say that there might by be many designers of CALL-based programs interested in control, but there are still many designers who are more interested in guidance. We’ve found BBC, and we believed that there are more websites like BBC.
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10/21/2004, 10:18 am
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Our group does not quite agree with Davies opinions. As a second language learner to use CALL-based programs, we think the designers of programs of CALL-based are giving much guidance to learners. To take “English Digest” website as an example, designers don’t seem to control learners, but rather to give more guidance to them. In the website, it gives learners a lot of articles to choose to read and listen. Learners can freely decide which articles they want and skip the articles that they are not interested in. They can also look at articles on line while listening to the explanation and learn some vocabulary and sentences. If they have questions, they can post them on the discussion board and get feedbacks quickly. Furthermore, through the discussion board, they can also chat with the native speakers if they want. Therefore, we don’t think the designers of programs of CALL are trying to control learners according to our experience of using this website.
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10/22/2004, 11:25 pm
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