1	Language Teaching & Technology Compiled by Doris Shih
2	Outline CALL Discuss on your TESOL reading Internet ESL/EFL Teaching Online ESL Resources
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4	Examples of CALL software Ready-made software on CD-ROMs Your own creation PowerPoint: example HyperStudio: example Other applications
5	CALL software - Advantages Interactive learning Integration of sounds, visual, text Provide a variety of activities Accuracy and ease of use Teachers can design their own materials. Individualized lesson.
6	CALL software - Disadvantages Financial considerations May not be effective to stimulate students Limited language – based on the programmer Time consuming for teachers to design Limitation in platform or computer hardware
7	Internet - Advantages Authentic contact available Teachers find large amount of data No platform problem
8	Internet - Disadvantages Students may copy copyright information Speed problem No mechanism to help the students track their paths
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10	"How does the Internet help..." How does the Internet help us learn and teach ESL/EFL or other foreign languages?
11	Internet ESL/EFL teaching Access vast information Printed materials Video Audio Contact & interact with other people Allow cross-curricular work Motivational
12	"Teachers need to use computers..." Teachers need to use computers and the Internet to create activities with language-learning purposes, not to purely “display the technology” (Windeatt, Hardisty, & Eastment, 2000)
13	Online ESL Resources Dave’s ESL Café http://www.pacificnet.net/~sperling TESOL website http://tesol.org Purdue Online Writing Laboratory (OWL) http://owl.trc.purdue.edu/