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==Methodological considerations==
 
Fascinated by the new technology, many users within the school environment focused on technological issues, at the same time neglecting pedagogical and methodological questions and not realising that innovative pedagogy and methodology waswere required to satisfactorily integrate satisfactorily the use of computers into the languages curriculum. One point of criticism which could easily be refuted was the claim that students tended to be isolated from their classmates when working in a computer lab - the "battery chicken" syndrome. It was found out, however, that using computers in language classes could promote team work among students and, if planned well, could also encourage them to use the target language to communicate in front of their PCs, thus increasing the time they spent practising their oral skills.
 
Whole-class teaching, which was a feature of early CALL - because scools could only afford one computer per classroom - is now making a comeback with the introduction of interactive whiteboards.
Generally speaking, CALL pedagogy and methodology continues to lag behind the technology.
 
Generally speaking, however, CALL pedagogy and methodology continuescontinue to lag behind the technology.
 
==The current situation==
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CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) journal, Taylor & Francis, Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/
 
Davies G.D. (1997) "Lessons from the past, lessons for the future: 20 years of CALL". In Korsvold A-K. & Rüschoff B. (eds.) New technologies in language learning and teaching, Strasbourg: Council of Europe. Also on the Web at:
http://www.camsoftpartners.co.uk/coegdd1.htm
 
Egbert, Joy, and Hanson-Smith, Elizabeth. (Eds.). (1999CALL1999) CALL Environments: Research, Practice and Critical Issues. Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
 
Felix U. (2001) Beyond Babel: language learning online, Melbourne: Language Australia.
 
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Fotos & Browne (2004) New Perspectives on CALL for Second Language Classrooms. Lawrence Erlbaum.
 
Levy M. (1997) CALL: context and conceptualisation, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
 
Language Learning and Technology: A specialist CALL journal available only on the Web: http://llt.msu.edu
 
ReCALL: The Journal of EUROCALL, now published by Cambridge University Press - login at http://www.journals.cup.org. Back numbers are available at: http://www.eurocall-languages.org/ecpubs.htm