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=//__Computer assisted language learning; __//= =//I think computer assisted language learning plays a vital role in teaching English at tertiary level. While computer has grown more powerful and multimedia has become more integrated, CALL. The major focus of CALL is on receptive skills. The internet is mainly a reading and listening to audio and video files. Though the limited access of CALL, it reached its full potential. //= =//“Classroom outside the classroom” //= =//Blog is derived from weblog. It is a diary or regular opinion columns posted on the internet. In blog, the writer posts diary entry which others can read and comments on it. //= =//Webbloging is for learners’ autonomy. The blogs used in two main ways in English language teaching. The first, learners’ can be encouraged to write and post their blogs. If learners are learning to write journals or engaged in other form of extensive writing in the classroom, is the right place to check their ability of writing. The learners’ are asked to post their blogs to create wider and more meaningful audience for their writing. The experience of creating publicly available blogs may be motivating their learners and encourage to develop the new set of writing strategies. //= =//The second, the most common in the language learning, the teacher can write the main blog entries, which learners can then comment on them. Even teacher can send assignments or projects to students on the taught topics, by which students can complete the work and send back to teachers. It is very easy for the teacher to access the work through the blog and students can rectify their mistakes. So the blog can encourage teachers to control teaching outside the classroom //= =//__Wikis __: //= =//A wiki is a web based platform for collaborative writing. It is used within a private domain as well as public domain for collaborative. The important feature of wikis is particularly used for language learning which is record of all drafts. This emphasis and focus on the writing process as well as written products. //= =//An example of a private wiki used for language learning can be found in Mak et al (forthcoming), who describe a wiki based project to produce a school broacher for parents at a Hong Kong secondary school within the public domain learners can be asked to collaborative as class to produce a Wikipedia entry (McDonald 2007) such project promote peer to peer collaborative increase motivation, empower learners to construct knowledge, and enable progress assessment //= = =
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