EFL537CALL Final Project Presentation

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EFL537---CALLFinal Project Presentation

• Jerry
• Instructor Lyra Riabov
• Date 03/06/2003

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An Old Chinese Proverb

• To give him a fish is good.
• To teach him how to fish is
• batter.

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The Changes

• Teachers teach students.
• Fixed time schedule
• Tapes and VCRs self study.
• You can learn any time
• Always the same
• Dead teachers
• Computers Technology
• Interactive studying
• Communicative Skill-Building tasks in CALL
  Environments

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Computers--an unlimited learning environment

• Using Software (Without Internet)
• A batter way to study by your selfSoftware
  evaluation
• Internet
• Free online resources
• The fastest way to get what you want
• The easiest way to share your ideas
• Distant Education makes possible

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Computers--an unlimited learning environment

• E-mail
• More way to communicate with
• WWW
• More learning materialsGood website for English
  learning
• Share to everyoneJerrys website
• Multimedia
• More interesting ways to learn

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Behind the Technology

• No one lose the business because not using
  PowerPoint
• Space
• Cost
• Time to learn using computer
• The content

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Behind the Technology

• Electronic Dictionary
• 400
• About 100 150 thousand words
• With voice
• Few sentences and explanations
• Fast (25 seconds)

• Dictionary
• 100
• More than 1 million words
• No vioce
• Plenty explanations and examples
• May take one minutes

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One last words

• Shakespeare did know the words Computer
• A knife has two blades each side
• Using computers as TOOLS to teach English
• YOU are the more important one than computer