WEEK 3 REFLECTIONS

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CALL: More than a Boom

I would like to star this reflection with that phrase, sometimes, It had happened to me, people think that CALL is just a current trend that is nothing more than “visual effects”, nice sounds and a colorful screen, but it is really more.

The help that CALL give both teachers and students is tremendous, it goes from the grammar practice to very complex forums that allow discussion and interaction. The application of CALL in the teaching – learning process is mandatory nowadays, teacher cannot be apart to the application of this tools in class.

One of the main applications of CALL for learning English is in the development of oral / aural skills.

Lindsay Miller (2011, pg. 3) points “ there has been a rapid increase in the development of Internet facilities and CD-ROMs” , this media permit the practice of the listening and oral skills due to the influence of the video and audio features of this material. The author also says “ this has been prompted, partly, but the more powerful computers we have these days and has been partly driven by the users´ demands for more interesting and innovative applications of the technology” (2011, p.3). The new features of Internet, as Web 2.0, permit the application of CALL for teaching English, here the interaction is the tool that improve the practice of oral skill. All over the Internet we have thousands of web pages where learners can practice in a very real way. Real situations are also presented, videos, sounds, songs can also be part of the practice of the language in Internet

In current world is almost impossible to think about a learning process without the use of technologies that allow the practice of what was taught in class, teacher can be blind to this fact. They must apply them in classroom to have a complete learning process .