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Log 2. CALL and the Teacher´s Role in Promoting Autonomy.

CALL and the Teacher´s Role. This article mention that Jeremy Jones wants to probes that computer-assisted language learning and autonomy are focusing in the role of the teacher to make and effective learning in students. However, i think that if the computer-assisted language learning is based in the technology, the role of the teachers if not relevant in the class or in the virtual class. Besides, the CALL programs are focusing on students can show their learning through that, but the teachers as guide in the classroom need to know how to make a successful class with CALL even the students are the most important. Also, i think that as future teachers we need to know about that because is a essential thing to make students can develop some skills that they have. For example, the CALL programs offer students can improve writing skill if the practice; also, they can find online references, dictionaries, and consult grammar-check. It is a interesting way to work with technology be...
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      COMPUTERS AND LANGUAGE LEARNING. Mark Warchauer and Deborah Healy   mentioned that many years ago the computers were a weird object in education. Some teachers nowadays use a computer because is an important instrument in all the classroom. It is interested because the article is divides in four parts.  On the other hand, the history showed some approaches in which the technology was grown, but in different ways; for example, I think that the communicative CALL is better because is a cognitive theory, and I consider that behaviorist give less opportunities than communicative CALL because the students are involve and they can work with the computers. Besides, the communicative CALL allows students to learn through a class in which the content-based, project based, and task-based; Also, teachers can develop a class with that kind of method. Other thing that I consider help teachers is that some software provided programs in which we ha...