Hello everyone, my name is Natalia Gregori. As all of you I am majoring a bachelor degree of languages. I am so interested on learning a lot of this subject to improve my knowledge and become in a better future teacher.

Week 1. The advent of CALL
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This time I am going to share with you my point of  view about the first reading...

My initial impression of this article was the history that computer-assisted language learning (CALL) has since it starts in 1960s, and how it has changed until this days. It stared to be used just as a support to make students work alone with language drills, then it was becoming more useful since it development was growing up. CALL has become an inportant tool in the teaching field because student learn in a more interactive way as it is mentioned about studies made in 1991 that shown that students felt more motivated in writing with computers than in a traditional way, also teachers have a wide field for developing their classes. 

Something that made me want to read more about the article was the amount of programs and apps that CALL offers for learning in general. It is very interesting how easier can be for us as future teachers to prepare a class using CALL instead of preparing all the material by hand since we can find many activities searching on internet but also we can make them do drills alone or create their own presentations. Moreover, students of a foreing language can look for extra help on internet as dictionaries, voice recording, video clips and animation of the mouth. There is a lot of courseware to be used in order to improve the mental development.

Filally, something I learned from this article and that every teacher should know was that technology is growing up and we have to growth at the same time and prepare ourselves to create the best classes as possible for our future students. To help them to develop correctly their skills and learn according to their stage, we have to take advantage of everything we can of CALL and remember that to not be bored teachers we have to be adapted to the environment.