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How effective is CALL in ELT?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Bernhard Kettemann
Affiliation:
University of Graz, Austria

Extract

Recently the NCET (National Council for Educational Technology) published a survey of the results of various studies on the evaluation and effectiveness of computer assisted teaching in Great Britain.1 This survey lists several positive effects of computer assisted teaching in a wide variety of educational applications. These range from increased motivation and eagerness to learn by disturbed or handicapped children to an increase in the performance of good learners by e.g. training analytic and divergent thinking.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1995

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References

1IT (Information Technology) Works National Council for Educational Technology, Coventry, 1994.Google Scholar
2Kettemann, B. ‘Kommunikativer Englischnter richt und Lemprogramme’, CALL-Austria 16 1992, pp 2338.Google Scholar
3Kettemann, B.Computers in English Language Education’, Moderne Sprachen 37: 1, 1993, pp 2435.Google Scholar