LISTENINGSPEAKINGREADINGWRITING

GRAMMAR

SUMMARY ON CALL IN LANGUAGE SKILLS

BENEFIT OF CALL

Increased motivation

Improvement of self-concept

Mastery of basic skills

Student-centered

Process learningBetter recall

Active process

Higher order thinking skills

Knowledge navigators

LISTENING SKILLS

•Discriminating sounds, Recognizing words

Perception skills

•Identifying grammatical units, Identifying pragmatic units

Synthesis Skills

•Connecting linguistic and other cues, Using background knowledge

Analysis Skills

SPEAKING & COMMUNICATION SKILLS

Some Speaking Skills

Mechanics (pronunciation, grammar, and

vocabulary

Functions (transaction and

interaction)

Social and cultural rules and norms

(turn-taking, rate of speech, length of pauses between

speakers, relative roles of

participants)

CALL for Developing Speaking Skills

working in small groups using multi-media programs with pronunciation functions & e-mail, voice mail & chat room via internet

voice chat sites: learners and teachers interact through the Internet in distance education courses. 

Asynchronous speaking practice : www.wimba.com, Internet voice mail, or attaching sound files to email.

students produce and publish podcasts

Benefits of CALL in Speaking Skills

Increased self-confidence

Form of expressions

Language forms and functions

Automatic structures

READING SKILLS

Reading Characteristics

Reading is the ability to understand, assimilate and retain stories and ideas

communicated through the written word

Skim

Scan

Guessing meanings of words in context

Understanding meaning through grammar

Detecting attitudes

Speed reading

Critical reading

Benefits of CALL in reading

students engaged in TELL

environment improved reading

skills

highlighting words in a text

on screen influences the

amount of vocabulary incidentally

learned by the reader

use of dictionary when electronically provided promote pick-up rates electronic

glossing as a support tool for

vocabulary development &

reading competency

Texts, illustrations

& videos support reading

Writing Skills

Writing Skills

Vocabulary

Spelling

Sentence structure

OrganizationCohesion

Coherence

Register

CALL & Writing

Using specific writing programs

Email

Word-processing

Text analysis programs

Synchronous chat programs

Blogging

SNS

Class Activity

• Word-Processor• Transformation: students

are required to make significant alterations to an entire text, for e.g. by turning continuous prose into a list of instructions or a newspaper report

Software

• Spelling Checkers• Pennington(1991-93),

Dobrin (1990), Markel (1990), Brock (1993), Gupta (1998)

• Advantages• - word-correction• - word-generation

Advantages More complex sentences

More self-disclosure

Larger quantity

Better quality

Data-driven learning

Grammar

Class Activities

• activities on adverbs, articles, If sentences and modal verbs: http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?catid=59997&docid=156190

• online English Grammar exercise on ‘there is’ and ‘there are’: http://www.eslgo.com/classes/beginner/bedroom.html

Software

• Grammar Checker• Concordance

Reference

• Dr. Rozina Abdul Ghani, CALL in Language Skills: LSRWG Power Point Slides Show, ENGL 4740, Computer Applications in Language Studies, Sem 2, 2012/2013.