Contribution to Book
Expanding CALL Beyond General Language Classes: The Case of Course in Language for Specific Purposes
Calling on CALL: From Theory and Research to New Directions in Foreign Language Teaching
(2006)
Abstract
Expanding CALL Beyond General Language Classes: The Case of Courses in Language for Specific Purposes, by Nike Arnold, provides a summary of CALL in language for specific purposes (LSP) classes, with emphasis on practical outcomes and non-traditional delivery of instruction of LSP courses being the wave of the future. Students at all levels of instruction now come to school with high expectations about how technology should be used for instruction. A blackboard and rows of chairs facing a lectern is not what they expect. Today’s college students assume their professors will use Smart Boards and present PowerPoint lectures rather than write on chalkboards (Young, 2006). Other students expect they can take their courses online and avoid the constraints of time and space that classroom-based instruction places on them (Duderstradt, 1997). In addition, the growing need for continuing education in all fields has created an ocean of students who not only need access to evolving knowledge within their particular domain but who want to access it in concise and targeted ways that fuse with their schedules (Drucker, 2000a,b; Alejandro, 2001). LSP courses have, for a long time, focused on students’ needs and concise, time-constrained delivery, often in non-traditional settings. In this regard, this chapter is a guidepost for all foreign language instructors who want to use CALL to teach in new ways that address modern students and their needs. [Review by Laurie Miller, George Mason University.]
Keywords
- Telematics,
- Language learning,
- Computer-assisted instruction,
- Language and languages -- Study and teaching,
- Training of teachers
Disciplines
Publication Date
2006
Editor
Lara Ducate and Nike Arnold
Publisher
Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)
Series
CALICO Monograph Series
ISBN
1085-2999
Publisher Statement
Copyright © The Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO)
Citation Information
Nike Arnold. "Expanding CALL Beyond General Language Classes: The Case of Course in Language for Specific Purposes" San Marcos, TXCalling on CALL: From Theory and Research to New Directions in Foreign Language Teaching Vol. 5 (2006) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/nike_arnold/19/