Impacts of Langauge Learning Based on Computer-Assisted Language Learning Instruction

Abstract:

In order to enhance students' learning motivation, scholars have been investigating the best teaching instruction methods for learning English. The efficacy of multimedia has drawn great attention to this issue and is presumed, under the assumption of adding an additional channel of media to transmit a message, to dramatically enhance communication and comprehension.¹ Multimedia technology (such as TV, computers, networks, Youtube, E-mail, and interactive multimedia) aids the teaching technique of integrating real-life target language situations into the language classroom. In this particular setting, learners gradually develop their language skills by being exposed to genuine target language environments. Hartman indicated that the multiple-channel theory, involving at least two of the channels under consideration here, increases learners' language comprehension. ²

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 479-480)
• Pages: 928-933
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.479-480.928
• Online since: December 2013
• Authors: Yan Ling Hwang, Pei Wen Huang, Li Ping Hsu
• Keywords: Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL), English Learning, Language Anxiety

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