REFLECTIONS ON ASSIGNMENT 1

Reflections on Assignment 1.

• When we were given a list of abbreviations that we needed to define or find their acronyms, this task really made us realize how the simple abbreviation, CALL can include many other complicated terms, meaning the scope of CALL is so wide. It is like the words, CAI, CAL, CALI, CAT etc are under the same, huge umbrella of CALL.
• It is quite fun but confusing at the same time when we searched for the acronyms of those abbreviations as we came across with other acronyms which have the same abbreviation with those we were working on but have nothing to do with CALL. In order not to be on the wrong track, we narrowed down our finding in the search engine by specifically typing the abbreviations along with the words, Computer-assisted in Language Learning (CALL).
• The second task was to discuss or explain about one concept out of six given and relate it to CALL/ CALS. We chose to do on authentic learning of language. To be frank, we were not really sure of the definition of the word, “authentic” even though we as BENL students are always thought by people as walking dictionaries. So, we first looked at the meaning of the word before we went through the next stage of doing the assignment which was material reading process. We read a lot for this assignment and gratefully, all our hard works were paid off.
• This topic was the most challenging according to out beloved lecturer, Dr. Rozina. However, we managed to dig up information about it and come up with a good paper (this is also according to her).
• This first assignment made us a little lost and confused at first as we are not specializing in computer like those ICT students and never cared to know what CALL was and its related terms. The computer jargons were enough to give us headache, not to mention their functions in CALL. Nevertheless, it was fun actually to pretend like ICT students and discuss about those terms loudly in front of other people.
• Overall, we liked and enjoyed so much doing the assignment as it represented the learner-centered approach that developed our independent learning.