Computer Assisted Language Learning Multimedia Language Learning Engineers

Computer Assisted Language Learning & Multimedia Language Learning

• Engineers, doctors, scientists, teachers, and others rethink about their English communication skills and find out ways to improve them. • More and more multi-national companies are looking forward to India for world-class business opportunities as a result of which it has become necessary to learn English language for an international communication. • The modern computer-based technologies have therefore become indispensable in English language learning

• Hundreds of effective audio video language teaching aids available in the electronic world. – Telnet – File Transfer Protocol – CD ROM – Power. Point Presentation – Windows Media Player – Quick Time Player Using the Modern computer based technology the four basic communication skills are acquires and they are to speak, to listen, to read and to write.

• . Computer-Aided Language Learning along with interactive multimedia and internet brings the real world environment into the classroom making learning more relevant and interesting. • TELNET is a network protocol used on the internet or local area networks to provide a bidirectional interactive text-oriented communications. – remote login application (ie) sitting at computer and login to any number of computers across the room, the campus, the country, or around the world.

• • • Task-based, authentic, collaborative language learning: email tandem webquests producing web pages synchronous and asynchronous discussion boards Computer Assisted Language Software: • Drill and practice • Games • Simulations • Tutorials • Tools • Hypermedia

• Drill And Practice • Games • Simulations • Tools spreadsheet programs statistics packages hypermedia software desktop publishing software presentation software CAD software

Like hypertext, but including sound, video, and/or animation. • Hypermedia thought to be as “chunks” of information (nodes), stored in a structure, and accessed by links (buttons).

MULTIMEDIA • Involves more than one medium • Involves the use of sound, animation, and/or video as well as text and graphics. – PPT Presentations, Videos – Wikis – Tag Clouds – Blogs – Mind Tags

Websites for Teaching Literature

Current Technology with Language Learning • Blogs – a personal website or web page on which an individual records opinions, links to other sites • Podcasts – (a digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer ) • Wikis – a website or database developed collaboratively by a community of users, allowing any user to add and edit content. • Internet Games • Facebook, youtube, Virtual world

Blogs for Language Learning

Important Blog List for Language Learning • • • http: //enjoy-learningenglish. blogspot. in/ http: //blog. thelinguist. com/ http: //actualfluency. com/ http: //www. aprenderalemao. com/ http: //www. edutopia. org/ https: //www. bellenglish. com

Podcasts in English

Podcasts in English http: //learnenglish. britishcouncil. org/

Internet Games for Language Learning

http: //www. eslgamesplus. com/

Wiki – Language Learning http: //en. wikipedia. org/