Week 4 Presentation

Last week's presentation was done by Fatin and Syazwani. They did a good job presenting about the history of CALL.

I covered a little bit about CALL's history during my presentation in Week 2. So I had a bit of background knowledge.

CALL's expert divided CALL into three era: Behavioral, Communicative, and Integrative CALL.

Behavioral CALL is characterized by drill and practice software. Communicative CALL provides software that offer skill practice but not in drill format. It promotes the implicit teaching of grammar. Lastly, in the era of Integrative CALL, the software make use of multimedia and the Internet.

I like the discussion about not correcting mistake to allow students to realize the mistake on their own. Based on my own experience, discovery learning is a good way to better remember something because you are aware of your mistake and become cautious not to repeat it.

After the presentation, we were required to create an English exercise using either Word or PowerPoint. My partner and I chose to create one using PowerPoint. It was a bit stressful but we managed to finished it on time.