Advantages of CALL Computer-Assisted Language Learning CALL

2. Focused practice. At this stage, the role of CALL is to assist instruction. It functions as a tool which provides students with exercises to manipulate the structure in question while all other variables are constant. The instructional strategies that will be used in this stage are practice and game activities. In practice activities, the design of CALL is like doing exercises on computer in the form of multiple choice items and short answer items. At this stage, students will get immediate feedback from the computer such as they will be given their score and the explanation of the answer. While in game activity, students are required to play grammar game on computer. 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.