Disadvantages of CALL Computer-Assisted Language Learning CALL
3. Communicative practice
At this stage, the role of CALL is to assist instruction. It functions as a
tool and employs simulation as an instructional strategy. So, at this stage,
students are
engaged in
communicative activity to practice the structure being learnt. It is used to give students a chance to apply their knowledge
in the real situation. The communicative activity at this stage is writing a narrative text. After students have learnt and practice past tense. They will be asked to write
a narrative text.
4. Feedback and correction
At this stage, the role of CALL is to assist assessment. It is used as a tool to help teacher give feedback and correction to students. In this case, the learning
application is designed to be able to show students whether their answers are correct or not. In addition, it is also made to be able to show students score
automatically after they have done the exercise. Therefore, the students can get immediate feedback from the application. Then, t
he teacher‘s task is just giving students evaluation about how well they do in each meeting. Teacher also may
give students‘ retention by re-explaining the answers and concluding what students have learnt in each meeting together.
5. Practice at home as a homework assignment
At this stage, students will be given the software to be learnt and practiced at home. To ensure that all students practice at home, teacher asks students to submit
their work in the next meeting.
From the explanations, it can be concluded that the use of CALL in this current study is both as tutor and tool. It means that the use of CALL does not
replace the function of teacher. Students do not learn in isolation with the computer in all stages, instead they only use it at the presentation, focused practice
and assessment activities. Here, teacher is still the leader which leads and monitors students to do communicative practice activities and also provide them
homework as well as feedback and correction.