The Impact of CALL Instruction On Classroom Computer Use: A Foundation For Rethinking Technology In

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The Impact of CALL Instruction On Classroom
Computer Use A Foundation For Rethinking
Technology In Teacher Educationwritten by Joy
Egbert, Trena M. Paulus and Yoko Nakamichi

• EFL 537 CALL
• Presenter Robert chinghuai.lin_at_snhu.edu
• Evelyn
• Instructor Lyra Riabov

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Introduction

• What teachers are and/ or should be learning in
  technology courses
• Teacher-education students knowledge of and
  attitudes toward technology
• How teachers think about and use computers in the
  classroom

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The transfer of CALL coursework to the classroom

• How do teachers learn about CALL-based
  activities?
• How does what they learned in their coursework
  impact their current teaching contexts?
• What factors influence whether the use computers
  in their classrooms?
• How do participants continue to acquire and
  master new ideas in CALL after formal coursework
  ends?

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4 Foci

• How teachers learn technology
• Interaction between coursework and classroom
• Factors influencing technology use
• Professional development in technology use

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1. How Teachers Learn Technology
What do preservice teachers take away from the
courses and actually use in their classrooms?

• Galloway(1996)
• a. What computer experience
• teachers need to gain
• b. How they actually use computers
• c. How they learn to use and
• adopt computers.

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Little or No impact on Teacher-Education

• Galloway(1996) Smerdon et al.(2000)
• Langone, Wissick, Ross(1998)
• Strudler, McKinndy, Jones(1999)

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2. Interaction between coursework and classroom
When teachers are willing to integrate technology
in their classrooms, their coursework may not
facilitate doing so.

• Wentworth(1996)
• Grau(1996)
• Keirns (1992)
• Parr(1999)
• Hargrave Hsu(2000)

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Early Finding Factors Influencing Technology Use

• Time pressures both outside and during class
• Lack of resources and materials
• Insufficient or inflexible guidelines, standards,
  and curricula
• Lack of support or recognition for integrating
  computers
• A clash between new technologies and other older
  ones in schools
• Lack of leadership and inadequate training and
  technical support
• Age, gender, attitudes toward technology
• Teaching experience

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3. Factors Influencing Technology Use
Positive /Negative

• Debski(2000)
• Knezek, Chiristensen, Rice(1996)
• Fisher(1999)
• Lam,Yildirim (2000)

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4. Professional Development in Technology Use
Build up confidence/ continue learning/ work shop

• Levy (1997)
• Grau (1996)
• Smerdon et al (2000)

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Participants

• 20 ESL and EFL teachers who had taken the same
  graduate-level CALL course (L530)during 1996-2000
  and who were currently teaching .

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Research Questions

• How do teachers learn about CALL-based
  activities? (table 1)
• How does what they learned in their coursework
  impact their current teaching contexts? (table 2)
• What factors influence whether the use computers
  in their classrooms? (table 34)
• How do participants continue to acquire and
  master new ideas in CALL after formal coursework
  ends? (table 5)

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Conclusion

• What are the goals of CALL coursework?

• Teacher educators hope to help
• language teachers to understand
• and apply CALL activities to promote
• student achievement.

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Questions

• How can you continue learning new ideas and
  approaches after finishing EFL 537 Course?
• What specific things you have learned from EFL
  537 Course do you think will be applied in future
  teaching?