(Click on each title to see activity related to it)
A) Rapport-building through CALL in teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. This is a link to an article written by Wenying & Ramsay (2005) and published in Language Learning & Technology. The article provides an exploratory study on the effective way of improving language competency through CALL. The aim of this link is to provide the reader with a practical vision on how the experience of FL teaching/learning can be maximized.
B)
Incorporating Technology into FL Classroom.
This is a similar supportive article from Trinity university website on the
practical ways in which FL instructors can enhance their practices with the use
of CALL. The purpose of this supportive link is to provide some best ways of
using computers to enhance FL learning/teaching experience
C) Technology and Second Language Teaching is an online revised version of a previous article
published in the Handbook of undergraduate second language education. The
purpose of this link is to provide the reader with a basic background of the
history of technology and L2 teaching as it browses the development and
insertion of different pedagogical approaches.
D)
Global competence: a 21st century Imperative. This link consists of an
article from NEA Education Policy and Practice Department. It presents the 21st
challenges which require the adoption of a global competence including the
re-examen of teaching strategies and curriculum. The purpose of this article is
for the reader to justify the necessity of using CALL in teaching/learning FL
nowadays (global world).
E)
Engaging the world. This is another link consisting of a video on global competence in
order to function in a world of diversity. The required skills of the 21st
include also the learning of FL, the understanding of other cultures, as well
the change in teaching strategies. The purpose of this video is to understand
the necessity of multiliteracy and multiculturalism in a global world.
F)
The National Council of Statement on Distance Learning in Foreign Languages. This is a guideline provided by the NCSSFL.
It provides a frame that can be followed in order to better the online FL
learning/teaching experience. This supportive link aims at expanding the
recommended factors that benefit to the FL learning/teaching through CALL programs.
