Monday, May 05, 2014

Website Purpose of Statement


       This website is designed to picture the teaching of foreign languages via CALL programs that use constructivist theory. Its purpose is to inform second language educators about the use of alternative media for language instruction, about the challenges they may face, and about the possible strategies to overcome these challenges. Strengthening and reinvigorating the teaching of foreign languages in the U.S. (as a step toward the development of bilingual education) is what this website is about.   
         In addition, informed learners and parents may gain insights in their effort of acquiring a new language. They may be motivated in their language learning process once they know that they can do it even from home without moving to another site (Sivunen & Hakonen, 2011). This systematic use of CALL in a daily life basis can be considered as an ingredient from which a reform of foreign languages teaching in the U.S. may be thought and planed.