Normalization: An Inevitable Choice of CALT

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With the further development of the multimedia network technology, computer-assisted language teaching "normalization" will be a key word in the language teaching methods. This paper analyses the key factors which restricts “normalization” of CALT from hardware, software and humanware to clarify “normalization” is the inevitable choice of CALT.

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