WEEK 2: Reflection on the History of CALL

REFLECTION:


1.   Reflect on your experience in the BENL courses that you’ve  taken.

BENL courses have helped us in implanting monumental knowledge and now we are greatly exposed to different areas or sub skills related to English language. Since we are majoring in Linguistics, we are taught on different subjects and some of them which are as follows: 1) Varieties of English, 2) Pragmatics, 3) Discourse Analysis, 4) Critical Discourse Analysis, 5) Psycholinguistics, 6) Morphology (many other more) and not to forget the most important part of all, the subject called Grammatical Analysis under the tutelage of Dr. Rozina. No exclusion on any subjects, we would say that every and each discipline is definitely interesting and has its own pros, benefits to us, the learners ourselves. We are very much grateful to specialize in English language in spite of this language itself as an international language, is so remarkable and significant. 

One more thing is that, BENL courses are not as easy as the outsiders would think of. They can be very challenging and stressful sometimes. They require a lot of critical thinking skills (of course, other skills are necessary and vital as well), some would require creativity and the like. Nevertheless, it has been a great great journey of going through the process of learning all the subjects. We love all the BENL courses and hoping to disseminate the same information we have grasped/learn to the younger generation one day. In sha Allah.

2.  Think of  the assignments which required you to apply the computer  to assist in their completion

In Phonetics and Phonology class, we were asked to to a research that requires us to transcribe conversation between two Malay English Learner and compare them with the transcription of a native speaker. The transcription is done through an English Phonetic Transcription website.

 Then, to complete the research we need to search for journals which could be obtained from the website.

Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+PICTURE

Another assignment that require us to use computer in assisting our assignment is Critical Discourse Analysis. Upon completing the assignment, we need to download Youtube videos of politicians discourses in order to analyse them. 

Source: https://www.google.com/search?q=tumblr+PICTURE

3.  Relate the  applications to the 3 stages of CALL & name the key concepts associated to the assignments.

In both of the assignment, Integrative CALL is used. It is because, the students and technology work together in solving the research problem. The websites provide information and it is also the medium to complete the assignments.