Abstract
AbstractThis paper, while sending a welcome message to the world’s CALL communities, presents a historical and developmental review of Chinese practices of educational technologies and ChinaCALL in particular. The review covers topics including the birth and concept of ChinaCALL, ChinaCALL’s pre-CALL heritage, pre-Web ChinaCALL, ChinaCALL in the new millennium, IBOE as a case study of ChinaCALL, and ChinaCALL in prospect. Also discussed are Chinese perceptions of educational technologies occurring at the macro, the meso and ground levels. On the ground level, technology consumers are characterized in terms of pen-pencil conservatives, AV natives, AV-CALL immigrants, CALL natives and CALL standby observers.
Highlights
This paper, while sending a welcome message to the world’s CALL communities, presents a historical and developmental review of Chinese practices of educational technologies and ChinaCALL in particular
Technology consumers are characterized in terms of pen-pencil conservatives, AV natives, AV-CALL immigrants, CALL natives and CALL standby observers
The second is personal in the sense that the retrospective aspect of the paper is made from the perspective of a reflective practitioner, i.e., an experimenter in the ChinaCALL field
Summary
It has long been a wish of members that ChinaCALL had an academic journal of its own. Computer-assisted language learning, is no longer used literally as a multi-word compound with its sense derived from its component words. It acts as a shortcut term, for the sake of brevity and convenience, and includes computerassisted instruction (CAI), computer-assisted language teaching (CALT), computer-assisted language testing (CALT), as well as e-learning. ChinaCALL, sharing the world’s common CALL technologies, has its own characteristics embodied in Chinese perceptions of technologies and practices of employing them (Section 4). This is followed by a case of study of ChinaCALL, an in-depth look at the Institute of Beiwai Online Education (Section 5).
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