چکیده:
With the developments of new technologies appearing very quickly, the attention has been focused more on technology than learning. English centers and institutes have mostly been busy accommodating new programs and technologies and hence have not spent enough time to evaluate the CALL programs and technologies employed to find their affordances and limitations. The present study was an attempt to study the perceptions and evaluation of the Iranian EFL learners and teachers about CALL. To this end, 240 students and teachers of two big institutes in Iran where CALL is used in their English learning program participated in the study. The required data were collected through a mixed-method design. The results of data analysis showed that CALL can enhance language learning and English listening, reading, and writing skills. It can also increase students' motivation and interest in learning and their exposure to language. However, it cannot improve speaking skill well. It also causes technology addiction, lacks good standards and an interactive nature necessary for the development of communicative proficiency, and may give the confidence to the teachers that everything is prepared by CALL courseware designers and hence they may come unprepared. The present study argues that the mere focus on technological support is not adequate, and a pedagogical understanding of language teachers’ and learners’ new roles and identities in CALL environment should be developed.
Keywords: Computer
خلاصه ماشینی:
"Understanding how learners perceive language and language learning is, consequently, of utmost importance because in this way teachers can raise their awareness about their students' perceptions of different activities and practices employed and then try to correct those perceptions which are inaccurate and unrealistic and to plan their pedagogies to embody those which are realistic and accurate (Mohebi & Khodadadi, 2011).
502 The effectiveness of CALL in English learning As shown in Table 5, around 73 % of the teachers and 60 % of the students selected the anchor points of either agree or strongly agree for the items existing in the learning part of the questionnaire, showing that the majority of the participants believed that CALL can enhance language learning in general.
However, CALL based on the perceptions and evaluation of the participants of the present study has the following problems and weaknesses: (1) speaking which is considered to be an important skill and for some the target of language learning cannot be improved well compared to traditional classes due to the lack of face to face communication and negotiated interactions; (2) CALL can cause technology addiction, which is a modern social problem."