In this post, we will talk about how did technology integration in education proceed. What you will have learned by the time you finished reading this post is the historical development of CALL. If you ask why I'm writing this post is to show you how luckier we are than students or teachers in the past in terms of language education.
CALL has been developing gradually for the last thirty-fourty years, and has focused on different aspects in different time gaps. Behavioristic CALL, communicative CALL and integrative CALL are the names given to different areas, respectively. Now, we can look at them one by one.
Behavioristic CALL dominated the 1960s and 1970s. It was based on habit formation and contributed to teacher instruction. However, by the end of 1970s, communicative CALL replaced behavioristic CALL, because it was meaning focused and there were no assistance to the instructions which in turn makes learners more active in learning environments and at that time, microcomputers were invented and created many possibilities for learners as well. But these were also not enough. Today's CALL, integrative CALL arose in the middle of 1990s because still, teachers were the main characters in classes. It has everything the learners need in order to learn actively. The students' needs, the skills they need to develop and also the environment where interaction can happen meet in one model. With the help of the developments in technology used in education, learning takes place more easily and learnt items stay in mind longer.
If you want to see the developments in a more detailed way, you can take a look at the time-line below.
Let's stop here with a question. Have you ever thought that if these technological items have never been invented, at what stage would you be?
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