“... then click on the correct answer”: which way ahead for the field of CALL?

Cornelia Tschichold

United Kingdom

Swansea University

Submitted: 09/07/2021

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Published: 03/22/2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4995/eurocall.2012.16213
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tutorial CALL, feedback, ICALL, vocabulary

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This research was not funded

Abstract:

Despite the promise it holds, tutorial CALL has been marginalized within the CALL community. Where the computer is used solely as a tool, the beneficial effects of feedback for language learning are absent. Vocabulary would be one of the areas where tutorial CALL can be of great use to the individual learner. A small study on learning Welsh vocabulary shows some of the areas where feedback in vocabulary CALL could be improved.
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