CALL Perspectives Question 4

Q#4
What do you think are the barriers or
limitations of CALL in the classroom?

Andrew
1) Access to technology, both in and out of class (e.g.
quality of school facilities, scheduling lab times, access to
internet at home)

2) Teacher (and student) familiarity with technology

3) Diversion: It is quite easy to shift the focus of a language
class entirely onto the technological elements, leaving
language study behind completely.

Afiwa
Most of it is all about the internet and to have that you need
electricity. If you are teaching in a remote area, you may not
have access to electronic resources. However, this all depends
on how everyone defines CALL because we learned about
teaching theories in the class as well through some articles.
There are activities you can do without the internet. For
example, if you have students to create a story book using
storify.com, they can do the same thing writing and cutting
out pictures from magazines for such an activity. Also,
technology is changing all the time. Maybe a busy teacher
doesn’t necessarily have ample time to follow up with new
technologies. There is also the cost of new programs that can
be used in the classroom so if resources are limited, stuff from
CALL may be outdated for that individual teacher or that
school.

Heidi
I mean, there are plenty of populations that are tech-
oriented, but many that are not, and we must be aware of
this as teachers. I mean, how much is really transferrable?
How about with student populations that have never used
these tools or are still learning “what” the internet is.
Anyways, these classes have also helped me develop an
awareness of how much of a learning curve CALL requires
in the classroom. Of course, this can incorporate language
development with the right scaffolding. I think these are the
kinds of themes that should also be explored in CALL,
especially if are talking about using these tools not just for
our personal uses (portfolio preparation, etc.)

Kamila
First of all, there technology may increase students’ anxiety,
that is why some additional scaffolding is needed.Then,
creating activities with technology might be rather time
consuming for the teacher and requires much preparation.
Also, it is challenging to use CALL in low-tech contexts,
where there are no computers and no access to the Internet.

Karen
Having CALL in the classroom won’t be cheap so depending
on the available resources of the school, CALL might not be
possible. I also think that teachers need to have proper
training in CALL in order to be able to do it effectively. If
the teacher is not implementing CALL effectively, there
might be a counter affect on the students in their language
learning.

Alicia
Implementing CALL into your classroom is much more
than having a computer available in the classroom. Much
like owning a pet, computers in the classroom comes with a
lot of responsibility and things to think about that may not
be always self-evident prior to getting the computer (or the
pet!). For instance, teachers need to be properly trained in
how to use and/or problem solve with any CALL-related
issues. Furthermore, you have to have enough funding to
afford any maintenance or repair problems. You also have
to have community investment in the technology piece,
sharing the responsibility; otherwise student interest in
CALL could fade and neglect CALL. I think I am done
trying to stretch this CALL-pet comparison!

Angelica
Time-consuming, had to do learner training at the
beginning; I have to keep myself up with updating the blog
as well, you don’t want to just wait until last minute and do
updates right before class.

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