Wednesday, 25 September 2013

The Possiblity of Reaching Bax’s Normilasation in our Saudi context: Why is it possible?When is it possible/reached/achieved?How will it be reached?


CALL has three new categories— Behavioristic, Communicative and Integrated CALL. Behavioristic CALL, is the most acceptable and would engage most agreement. But the other two categories are far less morbidity.
In this view the obvious way of determined the goal of CALL is through the notion of ‘normalisation’. This notion is relevant to any kind of technological invention and refers to the stage when the technology becomes invisible, embedded in everyday practice and hence ‘normalised’ like pen or shoes. They are all technologies that normalised to the range that we hardly even realize them as technologies.
In this article, they determined a possible future agenda for CALL , which aims to the normalisation, in which CALL becomes invisible, serving the needs of teaching and learning.
Surely, this will require changes in technology, in attitudes, in approach and practice amongest teachers and learners.
 Also they determined the means of achieving this goal by doing more ethnographic studies of individual environments to describe the relationship between the factors just mentioned.

In my opinion, CALL in Saudi Arabia is start in the last few years, and the level of education is improved and became depends on using technology. But before these years, we were use the traditional way of education. But Saudi Arabia still need many efforts to reached "normilasation
" to achieve the required level.

 

Saturday, 14 September 2013

My reflecting on reading 2

Ttechnological Change and Tthe Future of CALL
Technological determinism define as the introduction of new technology automatically brings certain results. The main distinction between hard determinism and soft determinism is that Hard determinism supposes strict causation, and it is a concept refused by most scholars. Soft determinism more sensibly suggests that while technological development does not automatically cause outcomes, it does enable new processes and outcomes.
The role of ICT in enabling change must be studied at the individual level. There are ten developments in ICT.
The expected effective of CALL is no longer a matter of using e-mail and the Internet to help teach English but is increasingly directed at teaching English to help people learn to write e-mail and use the Internet.

CALL have three stages:
First stage : Structural CALL “1970s-1980s”
Technology used is mainframe. 

Second stage: Communicative CALL “1980s-1990s”
Technology used is PCs. 

Third stage: Integrative CALL “21st Century”
Technology used is Multimedia and Internet.

Saudi Arabia has witnessed the same ten developments in ICT,and  the five areas that mentioned are emerge in the Kingdom.
 Growth in the number of broadband subscribers more than 30-fold in less than 4 years (2005-2009)
Represent about digital subscriber lines (63%) of the total broadband connections.
There are still good opportunities for growth in the coming years



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