Short history of CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning)

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Short history of CALL (Computer Assisted
Language Learning)
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The 60s and 70s

• Bulky computers. Access through terminals in the
  campus
• Big projects huge funding teams of experts
  universities and research centres
• PLATO (University of Illinois)
• TICCIT (Brigham Young University)
• Stony Brook (State University of New York)
• Influenced by Programmed Instruction
• Drills
• Linear development
• Whole language courses, substitute for the class

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The 80s and 90s

• Popularization of PCs
• Teachers designed their own CALL programs (BASIC,
  HyperCard)
• Independent activities, supplement to the
  classroom
• More communicative activities, simulations
• ATHENA (MIT)
• Camile (UK, France, Spain, Netherlands)
• Communicative activities demand linguistic
  competence
• Knowledge representation
• Grammar

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The XXI century

• Increasing cooperation between CALL and
  Computational Linguistics ? ICALL
• Cooperation still incipient
• Restricted mainly to parsers