lecture 3
'CALL software' here can involve any software or programs potentially usable by language learners in connection with learning/teaching or use of language
"Evaluation is a matter of judging the fitness of something for a particular purpose" (Hutchinson and Waters 1989: 96). 'Evaluation' therefore implies an activity where something is declared suitable or not and consequent decisions are to be made or action taken.
مقارنة بين research and evaluation
research may be done to find out things which then inform the value judgment and hopefully make it better. Research on its own may just end up with information, not judgment and action.
. The parallel is valuable... up to a point. There are some important differences, however.
مقارنة الكتاب العادي و الكتاب الالكتروني في نقاط
Firstly, a book is not typically dynamic or interactive; a program, by contrast, may not always present an exercise
Secondly, a book is more limited in its media capability. CALL can involve sound as well as pictures
Thirdly, use of written materials has few technological prerequisites: eyes and a desk to put them on will do. CALL by contrast requires computers, network access etc.
Fourthly, the language content of material in a coursebook is essentially unalterable, while some CALL software allows 'authoring
Fifthly, the activities to be done with each section of a coursebook are usually heavily constrained by the book i A CALL program on the other hand may be very constrained
The last two are important for evaluation,
The importance of evaluation
Evaluation is one of three key aspects of CALL that need consideration: Creation, Use and Evaluation.
The three key components in CALL evaluation
software glitches (e.g. the program crashes whenever the help icon is clicked) and inaccuracy of language (e.g. multiple choice exercises where the option counted as correct is actually wrong)
So one important aspect of evaluation is to establish the specific users (learners and teachers), situation, purpose etc. etc. that you are evaluating the materials for. This means that you cannot really evaluate without also thinking of how the material will be used in the learning and teaching process
there are three things to think about -
) the nature of the materials/software
the nature of the T/L situation, the learners and their needs, uses etc
a rating or judgement to make of suitability of one of the above for the other
compare a CALL activity/program with a non-CALL (pen and paper)
three components one of two ways round
التقييم للبرنامج يكون من قبل المعلم و لكننا لم نصل لهذه المرحلة و لازلنا على مقاعد الدراسة
نضع في عين الاعتبار نوعية الطلاب الذين سوف نقوم بتعليمهم و هل الادوات مناسبة ام لا؟
من الممكن ان ابدأ البرنامج مع مجموعة من الطلاب في اوضاع مختلفة لأرى هل تناسبهم ام لا؟
التقييم للبرنامج 3 طرق و طبعا سوف نركز على النقطة الاولى و الثانية لاننا لازلنا طلبة ولسنا معلمين
1) Evaluation of materials prior to purchasing them or creating access to them for any learners.
2) Evaluation after purchase or otherwise acquiring availability of software, but before use. Here usually the question is what learners it would suit
) Evaluation after the program has been acquired and used with some learners for a bit3
من اللذي يقيم ؟ معلمين اللغة و بالطبع اناس اخرين يقيمون الادوات ايضا