Computer Assisted Language Learning and Teaching

Instructor: Chi-Fen Emily Chen  陳其芬

Department of English

National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Taiwan

Preparation Guide for Your Final CALL Project

Part I.  Proposal

In your proposal, you should include the following:

1.  Objectives of your program

- What kind of the CALL program do you plan to develop? (CD-ROM or website?)

- What are your learning/teaching goals of developing this program?

- What language skills, knowledge areas, or communicative functions do you plan to focus on?

2. Target audience/users of your program

- What kind of language learners will you design the program for?

- What is their language proficiency level? What is their age/grade level?

3. Contents of your program

A) In the aspect of presentation

- What kind of lessons do you plan to present? What topic(s) do you plan to cover?

- How many lessons will there be in your programs? How will they be related to each other?

- What teaching points do you plan to present in each lesson?

- What types of materials do you plan to use? (e.g., dialogues, speeches, TV/Radio talk shows, movie clips, news, stories, jokes, brochures, magazine articles, advertisements, reading passages from a textbook, songs, rhymes, riddles, menus, maps, etc.)

- What resources (or links) do you plan to include?

B) In the aspect of interaction

- What kind of human-to-machine interactive activities do you plan to have? For what purposes?

- What kind of computer-mediated human-to-human interactive activities do you plan to have? For what purposes?

- What learning theories or instructional approaches will you use to support your development of computer-assisted language learning activities?

4. Design of your program

- What kind of multimedia/technologies do you plan to use? For what purposes?

- List what use of multimedia/technologies you or your group members already know and what you do not know but would like to learn (e.g., text editing, image editing, sound editing and compressing, video editing, webpage design, animation design using Flash, interactive features using Java scripts, etc.)

- What buttons do you plan to put in your navigation bar?

- What special design features would you like to add?

Part II.  Project and Your Self-Analysis

1. If you would like to develop a CALL website, please upload your final project to your university student web space or a free web hosting site, for example:

- Tripod: http://www.tripod.lycos.com/ (20MB)

- Yahoo!GeoCities: http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/learn2/HowItWorks4_Free.html (15MB)

- Angel Town: http://www.angeltowns.com/ (50MB)

- Net firms: http://www.netfirms.com/web-hosting-free (25MB)

- Yahoo 奇摩個人免費網頁空間 http://tw.home.yahoo.com/index.html (15MB)

- PC home 個人免費網頁空間 http://home.pchome.com.tw/ (15MB)

- 亞卓市免費網頁空間 http://regist.educities.edu.tw/applyWeb/agree.shtml (10MB)

2. If you would like to make a CALL CD-ROM, please give a copy to me.

3. In addition to your development of a CALL website or CD-ROM, you also need to write a self-analysis of your project (one for each group). In your self-analysis, you need to describe important features in your project, explain how SLA theories and language teaching approaches can support your design of CALL learning activities, and then evaluate the project by yourself.