WEEK 4.

A useful framework for ELT

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As the name of this week´s blog, since I have been reading about CALL and how helpful it has become for the branches of learning but mostly for teaching a foreign language, I consider that CALL is the more important framework nowadays. Because since it has been progressing, it has become in a tool that can be used for everybody around the world and without taking care of the age, even kids are able to learn a foreign language since they are really young. It is amazing to realize the quantity of websites that are in there. People can pay for a class online to support their learning but also it can be obtained for free just by having networking connection they are ready to browse whatever they want like readings, grammar lessons, podcast, etc. There can be found from basic to advanced tasks to support each level of learning. What surprised me in this article was the reasons not to use internet bacause it says that it can become exaggerated way to teach and that a comprehensive analysis of the research on CALL in primary and secondary school English language education similarly concluded that “the evidence that technology has a direct beneficial impact on linguistic outcomes is slight and inconclu-sive”. But I considered that from that investigation to the actuality, those tools that maybe were not a hundred percent successful, now have been improved in order to overcome the last ones and provide better strategies of learning and are being more used for teaching because teachers have observed that is a good tool for keeping students interested and not boring. The last point that caught my attention was the mentioned ¨branch of CALL¨ which is mobiled-assisted language learning (MALL) it has become in a very useful and eassier device than a computter, and can have at the same time a lot of applications for learning lessons and develop tasks out of the classroom.