Hello UGA CALLers,
Here are a couple of questions for us to ponder over. Tackle as many as you have interest in. I am looking forward to hearing what you have to say!
Levy & Stockwell (2006) lament the limitations plaguing CALL research. Specifically, they point out ambiguity and lack of detail in the presentation of findings, analysis, assessment, etc. that many CALL studies suffer from. While there is no easy answer, how would you organize data collection and analysis in your CALL course to ensure that you would be able to assess the effectiveness of CALL activities upon the completion of the project? A number of different methodological designs were discussed in the readings – which design model (or at least design features) seem optimal to you?
All of our readings for this week forefronted the importance of learner feedback. In your perspective, could learner feedback be an instructive and trustworthy evaluation criterion (for assessing the effectiveness of CALL activities) ?
Let’s blog!!!
Viktoria.
