Talk:Computer-assisted language learning: Difference between revisions

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The '''See also''' section has been verified and added to. I have added new verifiable titles to the '''Resources''' section, now renamed '''Bibliography''' - which will be referenced extensively as I re-edit the article as a whole. I removed the original link to Loucky (2010) as it bypassed a subscription service - which I believe to be dishonest. The link now goes to the TOC page of the journal (Literary and Linguistic Computing, OUP) in which the article appears. I checked most of the citations in the sections that I have not yet re-edited. Ehsani & Kodt (1998) are cited several times. They are a reliable source, but speech technology has moved on in leaps and bounds since 1998, and this source is therefore no longer a reflection of ICT's capabilities in this area. Stepp-Cready (2002) is a reliable source, though also a bit dated now. I cannot verify the references to Leigh Thelmadatter's article, "The Computers Are Coming … Are Here!", TESOL Greece Newsletter 95, but it appears that large sections of the Wikipedia article as edited by Thelmadatter in 2007 are a reproduction of this article at http://vennyoktarina75.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/call.doc. I checked all the references to Noemi Domingo's article. The actual date of the article cannot be verified, but the dates of the articles and books cited in the article all predate 2000, and it is clearly an outdated source. Noemi Domingo is not a familiar name in the world of CALL. Clearly, the Wikipedia article still needs a lot of work to bring it up to date. [[User:GroovyGuzi|GroovyGuzi]] ([[User talk:GroovyGuzi|talk]]) 11:49, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

The section on '''CALL software design''' has been revised to incorporate a summary of Stepp-CreadyGreany's article. The sections on '''Role changing in teachers and students''', the '''Use of CALL for the four skills''' and the '''Advantages of CALL''' have been removed as they tend to labour the points made by Stepp-Greany, who provides the main input for these sections. As the article continues to takes shape, these points will be included more discreetly and succinctly.

[[User:GroovyGuzi|GroovyGuzi]] ([[User talk:GroovyGuzi|talk]]) 19:46, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Title of the section headed '''CALL software design''' changed to '''CALL software design and pedagogy''' to reflect its contents more accurately. Minor changes to the section headed '''CALL typology and phases of CALL'''. Title of the section headed '''Multimedia language centres''' changed to '''Multimedia CALL''', with new text on multimedia CALL added at the beginning of the section. I am reasonably happy with the structure of the article at this stage. It makes sense as it stands, and I can now continue adding new sections, as planned, on '''Web-based CALL''', '''Corpora and concordancing''', '''Computer-mediated communication (CMC) and CALL''', '''Interactive whiteboards''', '''CALL in virtual worlds''', '''Teacher education in CALL''', '''The impact of CALL'''. [[User:GroovyGuzi|GroovyGuzi]] ([[User talk:GroovyGuzi|talk]]) 12:07, 30 November 2010 (UTC)