ComputerEnhanced Language Learning Environments: An Overview

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Computer-Enhanced Language Learning
Environments An Overview
Southern New Hampshire University

• EFL 537 CALL
• Instructor Lyra Liabov
• Presenter Sierra(Su-Yin, Su)
• Dec. 11, 2003

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Educational technology

• World wide web, internet, multimedia, CO-ROM,
  technology coordinator, chat room, MOO, e-mail,
  virus, newbie
• Understanding of good pedagogy and the
  relationship among teaching, learning, and
  technology.

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Language learning theory

• Spolskys theory of conditions for
  language acquisition
• the learners
• Kp knowledge in the
  present
• A Ability
• M Motivation/ affect
• O Opportunity
• Kf Knowledge and skills
  in the future

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Learning environment

• The component of language acquisition that
  teachers, researchers, learners, and technology
  can directly influence.
• Creating optimal language learning environment is
  the essential business of the language teacher
• A variety of classroom environmental variables
  may affect learners acquisition.

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Conditions for optimal language learning
environment

• Learners have opportunities to interact and
  negotiate meaning
• Learners interact in the target language with an
  authentic audience
• Learners are involved in authentic tasks.
• Learners are exposed to and encourages to produce
  varied and creative language.

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• Learners have enough time and feedback
• Learners are guided to attend mindfully to the
  learning process.
• Learners work in an atmosphere with an ideal
  stress/anxiety level.
• Learner autonomy is supported.

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Purcell(1996)-research generally has six levels

• Observation
• Recording
• Investigation
• Use of a model
• Experimentation
• Enlightenment

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Six steps of analysis, synthesis, and evaluation

• Describe a question significant enough to merit
  research
• Review in the relevant literature the knowledge
  to date about the research question
• State a tentative answer to the research
  question. or declare the further knowledge
  required to answer the question.

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• Determine how to test the research question or
  gather the required information, and state it as
  an if-then sentence.
• Test the hypothesis or gather the data carefully
• Refine the tentative answer to the research
  question, or present the clarification derived
  from the datageneralize the result of the
  particular research performed, and suggest
  further study about the research question.

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The most critical step-Purcell

• Ask the right questions
• Review the literature
• State a hypothesis
• Determine how to test the research question
• Gather data
• Refine your answer

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Conclusion

• Group work, providing concrete opportunities to
  interact in English, focusing on survival skills
  and functions or on content-based tasks, using
  problems solving, employing a multitude of media,
  recycling lesson content, providing open-ended
  opportunities for meaningful language use

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• Providing adequate time for tasks, feedback,
  appropriate prompting and other assistance,
  adequate information, research resources,giving
  learners to choose goals and participate in
  learning process.