TEFL BIG QUIZ

TPR is usually used in the face-to-face classroom, but now with the development of technology, we can use it on computer. There’re the benefits and the shortage between those two:

1. The teacher cannot see whether their student understand which is usually do through TPR class interaction.

2. TPR-on-a-computer is good enough for the individual learners. But, it still has weakness in case to teach the real beginners because they have to understand the tutorial without any capability to ask a question or ask the computer to repeat the explanation slowly.

Language instruction should focus on the learner's listening comprehension in the early stages of acquisition, while delaying oral production until the learner is more familiar with the new language. Comprehensible input through computer allows teacher to add multisensory elements, text, sound, pictures, video, and animation, which provide meaningful contexts to facilitate comprehension. Also, allow learners to hear the available input as many times as needed until they feel they understand it.

CALL programs always provide comprehensible input, particularly in listening because the computer learners also provided by all of that facilities such as sound, video, and animation. For their listening skills, CALL programs are very helpful because the learners could hear the sound as much as needed until they understand.

Based on our language learning experience with CALL software/website, we find pros and cons of multimedia CALL:

1. What we like is, the facilitate focused development of English language skill

- From our experience, when we use CALL website, we found that it provides many alternative for learners. For example, online dictionary which provide the translation and also the sound (how to pronounce the word)

2. What we don't like is, it provides interaction, communicative activities, and real audience

- From our experience, the interaction or communication on CALL website doesn't seem real. Like when we do an online test (like TOEFL) and we just type the answers, in the end of the test, we might find the score or result without knowing whether it is right or wrong.

There are some search engines which we use more frequently i.e. Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We choose Google as one of our most use search engine, because it is quite popular and easy to access, we also can find many references from it such as Google special features which is G+, Google images, Google scholar, Google map and so on and so forth.

Eventually, we certainly also found some problems which are the website doesn't exist anymore and we found a warning web page—page not found such as '404 not found' or sometimes our country can't access or doesn’t support some features on some websites, so it won't show up. Recently, the problem also come from the internet server connection, such as timeout while opening several websites, it is annoying. Though.

I’ve experienced using CALL for doing grammar excersices when I was in a Senior High School and after doing the exercise I got my score without knowing the right answer or which number that I did wrong, so, I still don’t understand how to do grammar exercise.

Melody and Alvina