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==Software design and pedagogy==

Above all, careful consideration must be given to [[pedagogy]] in designing CALL software, but publishers of CALL software tend to follow the latest trend, regardless of its desirability. Moreover, approaches to teaching foreign languages are constantly changing, dating back to [[grammar-translation]], through the [[direct method (education)|direct method]], [[Audio-lingual method|audio-lingualism]] and a variety of other approaches, to the more recent [[communicative approach]] and [[Constructivism (learning theory)|constructivism]] (Decoo 2001).<ref>Decoo W. (2001) ''On the mortality of language learning methods''. Paper given as the James L. Barker lecture on 8 November 2001 at Brigham Young University [Online]: httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20080208190123/http://webh01.ua.ac.be/didascalia/mortality.htm</ref>

Designing and creating CALL software is an extremely demanding task, calling upon a range of skills. Major CALL development projects are usually managed by a team of people: