Help of Computers

  There has been very interesting developments in history of teaching with technology especially in computer assisted teaching that have led us to where we are today. In order to get a general idea of the process let's take a look at the timeline I have made.

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  In 1930s large mainframe computers were found and later developed in mid 1940s. They were also used in World War II for missile guidance and cryptography in early 1940s. In 1940s also mechanical translations appeared but they were later seen inadequate.

  Throughout 1950s improved systems and therefore programming languages were developed. Also Call programs were used for drill and testing.

  

  The first electronic corpus " The Brown Corpus of Standard American English" was developed in 1960s along with a number of pioneer CALL projects. And also and most importantly at this time where computers were seen as practice teaching machines "Behavioristic CALL" emerged. 

Behaviorstic model is simply learning through the stimulus - response - feedback.

  In the 1970s-80s the "Communicative CALL" emerged as communicative language learning and teaching emerged. Communicative uses of technology were developed.

  After these kind of developments, in the 1990s powerful desktop computers that supported Internet use, LANs, multimedia and linked resources came into existence and set the present stage of CALL which is "Integrative CALL" .

  

  And all of this shows us that as the world improves the usage of technology increases accordingly. What we should do is to keep up with this improvement and  be aware of the opportunities in this century we live in. We are in a time of information. We should keep on using our creativity, be open to change and develop more and more....

Thank you for reading :)