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CALL Programs and the Natural Approach
1) According to your language learning experience with computers, do you think those CALL programs always provide comprehensible input, particularly in listening?
2) Do you think the feedback from the computer is sufficient for language learners to develop their listening skills ?
Note: Groups 2 and 6 are required to answer these two questions.
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 Re: CALL Programs and the Natural Approach ( Group 2 )
1. According to our language learning experience with computers, we think those programs do “not always” provide comprehensible input. It depends on different levels of contents and speed of delivery of CALL programs. Because of different levels of each second language learners, there is a different demand in CALL programs. Some CALL programs are designed for advanced language learners; the complexity of contents and the speed of delivery are much more difficult to a basic learner. Even if CALL programs allow learners to hear the available input as many times as needed until they feel they understand it. However, it is still too hard for basic language learners to understand what the content is telling about or what vocabulary it is, if there are no any scripts for the listening content. The misunderstanding might happen easily. Furthermore, it might cause the basic language learners to feel frustrated and reduce their learning motivation.
2. The feedback from the computer is not so sufficient for language learners to develop their listening skills. However, the feedback we get from the computer system is always predetermined answers. For instance, when you get the right answer, it will say “correct, right, yes,” or show you the percentage, “your score is 100%”. Otherwise, it will show “wrong, no, sorry, try again” to you.
When the language learners get the feedback, they even do not know where the errors are and what they can make the improvement for themselves.
One benefit of the feedback is that the computers can provide immediate and nonjudgmental feedback to learners, and it will be better if it gives learners more additional assistance. For example, the computer could give him/her some suggestion to enhance his/her listening comprehension ability instead of a few words “Sorry, try again!” if the learner does not comprehend the listening content.
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 Re: CALL Programs and the Natural Approach ~ By Group 6
1. Yes, I do think so, but only under such a situation that one has all the multi-function equipment of their computers. CALL programs can provide comprehensible input, above all, the listening part, the weakest part of second language learner. However, I have some personal opinion about the learning; that is, when things dealing with computer, I just can’t figure it out. I got confused all the time, but if I can overcome all the problems, learning a second language with those CALL programs indeed help students to gain what they can’t learn in their daily life. We don’t have such an English environment in our society, so we should try hard to create one for ourselves to head for it. This way, leaning English not only a skill that we learn for our future but a kind of fun we can enjoy wherever we are.
2. No, the answer is definitely no. Computer is not a human being. Though it can judge things sometimes from the superficial way, it can’t do as well as human being do. We second language learners do some exercise on the computer and of course we can get feedback from the computers; however, we can only get “ well-done”, “ good job” and something like that. And the feedbacks that computers gave are almost the same, we don’t even know what the mistakes are.
A second language learner learns something from a computer but not knowing what to improve. We should improve, improve and improve during our leaning. If we don’t do so, I can’t think of other way towards learning. So I don’t think it is a successful learning according to me, the one who can’t use computer well now feel more pessimistic about computer learning. But somehow, we still can get another benefit from it.
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