Language classrooms are occasionally anxiety-breeding situations. Foreign language classroom anxiety which negatively affects foreign language learning is typically associated with productive activities mainly speaking skill. To cope with the issue and overcome language learning difficulties, the present study was conducted to explore the impact of mobile-assisted language learning on enhancing...

This study aimed to explore the effect of computer assisted language learning (CALL) on the undergraduate students‟ achievement on the TOEFL exam. The study was designed as quasiexperimental research. The participants in the study were 34 sophomore students in the Department of Foreign Language Education in Middle East Technical University. The experimental group was taught using computer-assis...

Second language writing instruction has been greatly influenced by the growing importance of technology and the recent shift of paradigm from a cognitive to a social orientation in second language acquisition (Lantolf & Thorne, 2006). Therefore, the applications of computer assisted language learning and activity theory have been suggested as a promising framework for writing studies. The prese...

The use of subtitles in a Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) program can assist learners in the comprehension of the language input they are exposed to. In an interactive CALL program, subtitles may also help learners in the formulation of their own responses. This paper describes the evaluation of a speech interactive CALL program that combines speech recognition technology, embodied a...

intelligent computer-assisted language learning environment, recently initiated at our institution. WordBricks is intended to serve as a " virtual language lab " that supports open experiments with natural language constructions. Being based on dependency grammars, this instrument illustrates the use of modern natural language processing technologies in language learning. The use of computer-as...

Intelligent computer-assisted language learning—Intelligent CALL, or ICALL—can be defined in a number of ways, but one understanding of the term is that of CALL incorporating language technology (LT) for e.g. analyzing language learners’ language production, in order to provide the learners with more flexible—indeed, more ‘intelligent’—feedback and guidance in their language learning process. H...

Technology-assisted facilities have taken English Language Teaching (ELT) to a different level where Computer Assisted Learning (CALL) has become an indispensable feature of leaning language. Recently, in the current day context ELT, both learners and teachers are experiencing positive shift from CALL another more efficient platform called Mobile (MALL). This paper explores fundamentals MALL it...

This qualitative study analyzes the reasons of college students for learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in Costa Rica and the reasons of high school students for learning German as a foreign language (GFL) in the US. It asks to what extent the learners’ reasons align with or deviate from neoliberal discourses that commodify foreign languages. The analysis of 27 interviews in a US high ...

It has been over 50 years since the emergence of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) that would forever change how second/foreign languages are taught. This article presents a historical overview of the evolution of CALL from the early years of the mainframe computer to the integrative technologies of the 21st century. It examines the evolution of the dual fields of educational technolog...