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1.1 Introduction The acronym CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) appears to have been coined at the beginning of the 1980s. The first occurrence we By 1982 it was in widespread use in the UK, featuring in the title of Issue No. 1 (July 1982) of the newsletter CALLBOARD and in Davies & Higgi CALI (Computer Assisted Language Instruction) was initally preferred, appearing in the name of CALICO (founded in 1982), the oldest professi promotion of the use of computers in language learning and teaching. TESOL favoured CALL, setting up its CALL Interest Section (CALLIS) in 1 appears to have fallen out of favour because of its association with programmed learning, i.e. a teachercentred rather than a learnercentred approach and CALL is now the dominant term. CALICO now uses the term CALL in preference top CALI. An alternative term to CALL emerged in the 1980s, namely Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL), which was felt to provide a more which fall broadly within the range of CALL. Brown (1988:6) writes: Learning a foreign language can enrich the education of every pupil socially and intellectually and be vocationally relevant. The new technolo a modern language department's overall teaching strategy. By these means, to coin a communicativesounding acronym, TELL (Technology E help produce telling results in language performance both in school and in the wider world. It therefore has a place in every modern language d During the 1990s TELL was adopted by the TELL Consortium (now defunct), University of Hull, and it figured in the name of the journal of CAL See also Bush & Terry (1997) . Throughout the 1980s CALL moved away from its initial leanings towards behaviourism and drillandpractice, widening its scope to embrace the c new technologies. CALL now includes highly interactive and communicative support for listening, speaking, reading and writing. Levy (1997:1) pro of CALL: Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) may be defined as "the search for and study of applications of the computer in language teach This is a catchall definition, which is endorsed by and figures in the names of the growing number of for CALL throughout the world: see our Reso Professional associations . It is, however, useful to break down CALL into various subdivisions, and this is reflected in the structure of the ICT4LT w who raise the question Why call CALL “CALL”? See also: The Wikipedia article on CALL , which is broken down into sections describing different manifestations of CALL. Scoop.it! is a useful curation tool that enables you to set up Web pages that gather together links on a specific topic and follow other people's l Scoop.it provides a facility for you to "curate" information on your topics by trawling the Web and finding links that you may wish to add to y attractively like the page of a magazine. Two of the topics covered are Computer Assisted Language Learning and Virtual World Language Le CALL encompasses many different types of software applications. The applications tend to fall into two distinct types:

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1.1 Introduction

The acronym CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) appears to have been coined at the beginning of the 1980s. The first occurrence we have found is in By 1982 it was in widespread use in the UK, featuring in the title of Issue No. 1 (July 1982) of the newsletter CALLBOARD and in Davies & Higgins (1982)CALI (Computer Assisted Language Instruction) was initally preferred, appearing in the name of CALICO (founded in 1982), the oldest professional association devoted to thepromotion of the use of computers in language learning and teaching. TESOL favoured CALL, setting up its CALL Interest Section (CALL­IS) in 1983 appears to have fallen out of favour because of its association with programmed learning, i.e. a teacher­centred rather than a learner­centred approach that drew heavily on behaviourism,and CALL is now the dominant term. CALICO now uses the term CALL in preference top CALI.

An alternative term to CALL emerged in the 1980s, namely Technology Enhanced Language Learning (TELL), which was felt to provide a more accurate description of the activitieswhich fall broadly within the range of CALL. Brown (1988:6) writes:

Learning a foreign language can enrich the education of every pupil socially and intellectually and be vocationally relevant. The new technology should form an integral part ofa modern language department's overall teaching strategy. By these means, to coin a communicative­sounding acronym, TELL (Technology Enhanced Language Learning) canhelp produce telling results in language performance both in school and in the wider world. It therefore has a place in every modern language department.

During the 1990s TELL was adopted by the TELL Consortium (now defunct), University of Hull, and it figured in the name of the journal of CALL­AustriaSee also Bush & Terry (1997).

Throughout the 1980s CALL moved away from its initial leanings towards behaviourism and drill­and­practice, widening its scope to embrace the communicative approach and a range ofnew technologies. CALL now includes highly interactive and communicative support for listening, speaking, reading and writing. Levy (1997:1) provides the following succinct definitionof CALL:

Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) may be defined as "the search for and study of applications of the computer in language teaching and learning".

This is a catch­all definition, which is endorsed by and figures in the names of the growing number of for CALL throughout the world: see our Resource CentreProfessional associations. It is, however, useful to break down CALL into various subdivisions, and this is reflected in the structure of the ICT4LT website. See who raise the question Why call CALL “CALL”?

See also:

The Wikipedia article on CALL, which is broken down into sections describing different manifestations of CALL.

Scoop.it! is a useful curation tool that enables you to set up Web pages that gather together links on a specific topic and follow other people's links Scoop.it provides a facility for you to "curate" information on your topics by trawling the Web and finding links that you may wish to add to your topic pages. The links are laid outattractively like the page of a magazine. Two of the topics covered are Computer Assisted Language Learning and Virtual World Language Learning

CALL encompasses many different types of software applications. The applications tend to fall into two distinct types: