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Affordances and limitations of technology: Voices from EFL teachers and learners.
(Mohammad Amiryousefi)
Abstract
- With the developments of new technologies appearing very quickly, the attention has been focused more on
- technology than learning. English centers and institutes have mostly been busy accommodating new programs
- and technologies and hence have not spent enough time to evaluate the CALL (Computer Assisted Language
- Learning) programs and technologies employed to find their affordances and limitations. The present study
- was an attempt to study the perceptions and evaluation of the Iranian EFL learners and teachers about CALL.
- To this end, 240 students and teachers of two big institutes in Iran where CALL is used in their English
- learning program participated in the study. The required data were collected through a mixed-method design.
- The results of data analysis showed that CALL can enhance language learning and English listening, reading,
- and writing skills. It can also increase students' motivation and interest in learning and their exposure to
- language. However, it cannot improve speaking skill well. It also causes technology addiction, lacks good
- standards and an interactive nature necessary for the development of communicative proficiency, and may
- give the confidence to the teachers that everything is prepared by CALL courseware designers and hence they
- may come unprepared. The present study argues that the mere focus on technological support is not adequate,
- and a pedagogical understanding of language teachers’ and learners’ new roles and identities in CALL
- environment should be developed.
Keywords:
Computer Assisted Language Learning; evaluation; perception; language learning;
language skills
(Source: Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning. Article 2, Volume 9, Issue 19, Winter and Spring 2017, page 1-24. Available at: https://elt.tabrizu.ac.ir/article_6252.html . Accessed on April 20th, 2019)
Answer questions 30 to 33 according to TEXT II.