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Resistance to CALL: degrees of student reluctance to use CALL and ICT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

John Gillespie  and
Jane McKee
John Gillespie
Affiliation:
University of Ulster, N. Ireland
Jane McKee
Affiliation:
University of Ulster, N. Ireland
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Abstract

This paper examines the range of different factors which in our experience contribute to student resistance to the use of computers for language learning. These problems relate to aspects of the computing environment, social and psychological factors and issues relating to the curriculum and teaching methods. We have made basic suggestions about ways of overcoming these resistances. However our principal finding is that the most effective and coherent way of fostering student adoption of CALL is to develop a computer based learning environment, which draws on the success of communications software and the Internet, based on the computer conferencing program First Class.

Type
Selected Papers
Information
ReCALL , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , May 1999 , pp. 38 - 46
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1999

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