Our First Comp App Mini Assignment

Mini Assignment 1

Reflections and Questions

1. Which courses incorporate the use of computer in teaching and learning?
2. Were the computer-based activities related to any of the three stages of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)?
3.  What are the important concepts in the three stages of CALL related to the activities?

Answer

1.    Subject: Critical Discourse Analysis

Task: Students were asked to analyse an article from an online newspaper from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis using Norman’s Fairclough notion of discourse and hegemony.

2.    Yes. This activity implies two stages of CALL: Communicative CALL and Integrative CALL.

3.    Communicative CALL: The students have to discover and choose which article fits into the criteria to be used in the assignments. Students have their own liberty of choosing which article they wanted to use for the assignment.  

Integrative CALL: The involvement of the lecturer during the process of completing the assignments. Consultations were made necessary so that the students were on the right track. The students also use the computer to browse the database as well as using the word processor. Thus, the computer only acted as a tool.