Design Programs CALL

            There is a question about teacher role when the technology comes, whether the teacher is necessary or not. Teacher’s role can not be replaced with technology because teacher have a pedagogy to teach while technology is an instrument to support learning. When designing CALL ( Computer-Assisted Language Learning ) the thing that should be in control is pedagogy rather than technology. However, it will be great if we can combine both of pedagogy and technology. We also have to aware about the target of learning, learners’ language level, purpose of learning, appropriate use of technology such as visualization and the pedagogy approach.

            Considering technology is use for presenting materials but it cannot give feedback. Also, technology is design by designer who should consider the content for learner. During learning language with the technology, the interaction occurs between human to machine and human to human while Sutton’s review on the interaction (based on pedagogy interactivity) should occurs: the content & learner’s and knowledge,   learner & instructor for giving feedback, learner & learner, learner & interface ( learner may interact with content, instructor or other learner).

            For designing CALL programs, there are four major fields to be considered. They are content design, visual design, navigation design and multimedia design. In content design is about how to present the material appropriately by set the font, giving valid information for the language learner, providing comprehensible input match the level language learner and designed well-structured.  Then, the visual design is about the preference of layout, illegible font, alignment and the contrast of the color. After that, navigation design is how the navigation is easy to be use. And the last is multimedia design which emphasize on the media file size should not too large and the quality of the file should be good.