Computer-Assisted Language Learning Trends and Issues Revisited: Integrating Innovation

This update to Garrett (1991), "Technology in the Service of Language Learning: Trends and Issues," explores current uses of technology to facilitate the teaching and assessment of second languages. In this article, I discuss the changes that have taken place over the last 18 years regardi...

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Published in:The Modern language journal (Boulder, Colo.) Vol. 93; no. s1; pp. 719 - 740
Main Author: GARRETT, NINA
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Malden, USA Blackwell Publishing Inc 01.12.2009
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Subjects:
Authentic texts
CAI
Calico
Call centers
Computer Assisted Instruction
Computer assisted language learning
Computer Assisted Testing
Computers
Educational Technology
Educational Trends
Efficacy
Electronic Learning
Grammar
Grammar instruction
Information technology
Infrastructure
Innovations
Language
Language acquisition
Language centers
Language instruction
Language Teachers
Language translation
Languages
Learning
Nonnative languages
On call
Online Courses
Pedagogy
Professional Associations
Professional development
Professional training
Second Language Instruction
Second Language Learning
Second languages
Social education
Social Networks
Teacher education
Teacher Improvement
Teacher Qualifications
Teachers
Teaching
Teaching Methods
Technology
Telecommunications
Telephones
Trend Analysis
World language instruction
ISSN:0026-7902, 1540-4781
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Summary:This update to Garrett (1991), "Technology in the Service of Language Learning: Trends and Issues," explores current uses of technology to facilitate the teaching and assessment of second languages. In this article, I discuss the changes that have taken place over the last 18 years regarding selected topics from the 1991 article, including the relationship between pedagogy, theory, and technology, physical infrastructure, efficacy, copyright concerns, categories of software (e.g., tutorial, authentic materials engagement, communication uses of technology), and evaluation. I then explore the most challenging issues facing computer-assisted language learning (CALL) scholarship and practice today, that is, new demands in language education (based on the conclusions of the 2007 report of the Modern Language Association and Jackson & Malone, 2009), the need to rethink grammar instruction, online learning, social computing, teacher training and professional development, and CALL research. Like the original 1991 article, this work contains an appendix with links to information resources for CALL research and practice. I conclude by saying that new initiatives are needed to promote the use of technology for research on CALL and for facilitating second language acquisition, such as support for institutional language centers, streamlining of the work of professional organizations dedicated to CALL, and the establishment of a national CALL center.
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ISSN:0026-7902
1540-4781
DOI:10.1111/j.1540-4781.2009.00969.x