Reflect on your experience in BENL courses that you've taken
Based on our experience in BENL, CALL plays a major role in ensuring our comprehension towards subjects taught. CALL helps in giving extended explanation towards theories taught. And one of the subject that we can relate to is Psycholinguistics. In psycholinguistics, most of theories are alien to us (e.g behaviorism, cognitive-revolutions and modular-vs-interactive) are abstract and non-empirical to the human mind. With the help of CALL's in providing examples and show previous researches, we could understand more and dwell into the subject with better comprehension.
the mouse-cheese experiment is a common example of behaviorism
Video of the mouse-cheese experiment conducted by B.F. Skinner
Think of the assignments that requires you to apply the computer to assist in their completion.
In this course, students are divided into groups. And then all the groups are assigned to do a mini-research to prove or study a theory proposed. This research requires students to use computer to access into archives, online library, retrieving published articles and collecting data and samples. The computer is used in various ways possible to deal with the completion.
Relate the 3 stages of CALL & name the key concepts associated to the assignment.
We cumulatively think that the usage of computer in helping completing our assignment falls under the first stage of CALL, which is behaviorist. This is because the computer serves as the provider to all sorts of information and keep feeding the student. In other words, the computer serves as 'the teacher'.
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