WEEK1: Exercise of History of Call

QUESTION 1:

Reflect on your experience in the linguistic course that you have chosen as the them of your blog. Did the course incorporate the use of computer in teaching and learning.

ANSWER:

The linguistic course that we choose is Phonetics and Phonology. This course is quite practical, thus we have many class activities. Some of the activities are to draw and fill in the blank the diagram of the place of articulation. we also have to transcribe words into symbols that represent the sounds of the words. All these activities require us to memorize a lot.

The course incorporates the use of computer in teaching and learning. The lecturer uses the computer and the projector to show her slides. We use the computer to refer to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) chart and to do exercises.

QUESTION 2:

Relate the concepts in the three stages to that experience. Are the computer-based activities related to any of the three stages of CALL?

ANSWER:

The computer-based activities in the Phonetics and Phonology class are related to the three stages of CALL. The computer works as a mechanical tutor (Behaviorist CALL), a pupil or a stimulus (communicative CALL), as well as a tool (integrative CALL)

QUESTION 3:

Discuss how the concepts in three stages of CALL are relevant to SLA theories or practices. What are the important concepts in the three stages related to the activities?

ANSWER:

Computer As A Mechanical Tutor

• The lecturer uses the computer and projector to show her power point slide, pictures (e.g. vocal track diagram), charts (IPA chart), and videos (different English Dialects) 
• The computer is used to play audiovisual materials as to show how to produce a certain sound and how to pronounce a certain word correctly.
• We are required to repeat and memorize the IPA chart, the sound of every symbol and the human vocal track diagram.

Computer As A Pupil/ Computer As A Stimulus

• We may know the sound of a symbol but may not know how to write it. Thus, the computer helps in the symbols of the sounds in the IPA chart.

Computer As A Tool

• The students are asked to go in front of the class and transcribe words and phrases using the computer.
• The students do exercises on the computer using the links and software which what are given by the lecturer.
• The computer also can check whether the transcription of the words is correct or not by using a software on the computer
• Lecturer uses the computer as a medium to posts notes and announcements which is through LMS.