Abstract
Linguistics, procedure and technique in CALL teacher education
Highlights
Not surprisingly, one of the main issues in call teacher education research is instruction effectiveness and its impact on the careers of trainee teachers (Egbert, Paulus & Nakamichi, 2002; Hong, 2010; Kessler, 2006)
Call education has inherited from call research and practice a number of challenges and constraints that must be taken into consideration in order to provide teachers with competence and autonomy to 155
Understanding the different factors that affect integration (McCarthy, 1999) is one such challenge: the interest of call education researchers in approaches such as, for instance, project-oriented instruction (Debski, 2006) or situated learning (Egbert, 2006) shows their concern for the development of the trainees’ ability to cope with the complexity of integration. Another important challenge for call as a discipline is its ability to produce a pedagogical rationale (Salaberry, 2001; Thomas, Reinders & Warschauer, 2013). This issue is even more delicate in the context of call education as teachers – especially in-service teachers – are generally equipped with a body of pedagogical knowledge that needs to be dealt with, as it might not correspond to the call pedagogy
Summary
Research in call education has identified a series of goals and constraints for technology in language education that need to be taken into account when designing a call syllabus. This article presents a theoretical framework for syllabus design based on the identification of three areas of expertise within call: linguistic knowledge, procedural skills and technical skills. In the article it is argued that each of these areas can be developed through specific activities and that all areas concur to the ability to integrate the technology in language education
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